National Webcast Initiative
~ BotNets (Short for Robot Networks) ~
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
2:00pm - 3:00pm (Eastern)
Andre' M. Di Mino, The Shadowserver Foundation
Andre' is the Co-founder & Director of the Shadowserver Foundation, an all volunteer, non-profit organization that gathers, tracks, and reports on malware, botnet activity, and electronic fraud. He has over 20 years experience in IT operations and management with his primary focus being on information security.
His role within Shadowserver involves him in the direct research and analysis of honeypot technology, malware and network traffic analysis, and botnet research. Andre' also leads and provides overall direction to each segment of the Shadowserver operation.
Before his Shadowserver days, Andre' worked as application engineer, system & network designer/administrator, and corporate consultant. His consulting work focused primarily on penetration testing, detection and defense strategies, network security monitoring, risk assessment, and firewall /IDS design and deployment.
Andre' holds a BSEE from Fairleigh Dickinson University and the CISSP, GCIH, and GSEC certifications. He is a member of ISSA and the SANS Advisory board, as well as HTCIA, and FBI Infragard. He has been a speaker and moderator at various security conferences and roundtables.
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