Planning and Logistics Committee
Righard J. Zwienenberg
Righard J. Zwienenberg started dealing with computer viruses in 1988 after encountering the first virus problems on a system at the Technical University of Delft. His interest thus kindled, Zwienenberg has studied virus behaviour and presented solutions and detection schemes ever since. Initially he started as an independent consultant, then in 1991 he co-founded CSE Ltd where he was the Research and Development Manager. In October 1995, Zwienenberg left CSE and one month later he started at the Research and Development department of ESaSS BV ? developers of ThunderBYTE ? to reinforce the team and have some new challenges in life. In 1998, Norman Data Defense Systems acquired ESaSS and Zwienenberg joined the Norman Development team where he was working on the engine of Norman Virus Control and represented Norman in several cooperation-bodies. In 2005 Zwienenberg took the role of Chief Research Officer at Norman. After AMTSO was formed, Zwienenberg was chosen as its president.
Zwienenberg has been a member of CARO since late 1992. He is a frequent speaker at conferences ? among these Virus Bulletin, EICAR, AVAR, RSA, InfoSec, etc - and seminars. His interests are not limited to viruses but have broadened to include general security issues and encryption technologies over the past years. His hobbies include Star Trek, Rock & Roll and Rhythm and Blues music, theatre and movies. A few years ago he took up the art of magic again and playing the drums as well.
Gabor Szappanos
Gabor graduated from the Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest with a degree in physics. His first job was in the Computer and Automation Research Institute, developing diagnostic software and hardware for nuclear power plants.
Gabor started antivirus work in 1995 and has been developing freeware antivirus solutions in his spare time. He also did on-contract work in developing the Virus ALERT for Macros product family. He was also an editor of a Hungarian magazine, Uj Alaplap, running the section ?Virus Patrol?, until the magazine discontinued.
He joined VirusBuster in 2001 where he was responsible for taking care of macro virus and script malware. Since 2002 he has been the head of the virus lab. He is a frequent speaker at antivirus conferences and has authored several articles on malware analysis. Since 2008 he is a member of the board of directors of AMTSO
