When: 11.30 h - 13.00 h
Where: Fifth Avenue Place SW; West Tower, +15 Conference Room in NW corner of building (4 Ave and 2 Street SW corner)

 

Persistent Malware, exemplified best by the likes of Kido and Conficker, are on the rise and exploit zero day vulnerabilities on the end points. They continue to mutate and acts as parasites; they need to keep the host healthy in order to have benefits. Often they stay dormant for months and even years undetected. What are they used for? How do they keep reinfecting us? How can we protect ourselves?

 

Hongwen Zhang, Chief Executive Officer, Wedge Networks

Dr. Zhang has a PhD in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary , a MSc in Computer Engineering from the Institute of Computer Technology - Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, PRC), and a BSc in Computer Science from Fudan University (Shanghai, PRC). With more than 18 years of high tech leadership experience, Dr. Zhang was a co-founder of 24C Group Inc., which developed the first digital receipts infrastructure for secure electronic commerce. He was also a principal of Servidium Inc., now ThoughtWorks Canada Inc., a global leader in agile development methodology. Dr. Zhang is a co-inventor on several patents in the area of computing and networking.

 

 

Please arrive early enough (11:30) to get lunch and be seated by 11:45. We finish at 1:00pm.

Meeting room to be determined.  

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