Christopher Kruegel is an Associate Professor and the holder of the
Eugene Aas Chair in the Computer Science Department at the University
of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests are computer and
communications security, with an emphasis on malware analysis and
detection, web security, and intrusion detection. Christopher enjoys
to build systems and to make security tools available to the
public. He has published more than 90 conference and journal
papers. Christopher is a recent recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the> MIT Technology Review TR35 Award for young innovators, an IBM
Faculty Award, and several best paper awards.
Malicious software (malware) is an important threat and root cause of
many security problems on the Internet. In this talk, I will discuss
our recent efforts on malware analysis, detection, and
mitigation. First, I will introduce our infrastructure to collect and
analyze malicious code samples. Then, I will present techniques to
improve the quality of the results produced by automated, dynamic
malware analysis systems. Finally, I will discuss ways in which these
results can be leveraged for the detection and mitigation of malicious
code.