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By adopting a planned approach involving both end users and IT administrators, and
implementing integrated security solutions that protect, detect and correct, businesses can
avoid the unplanned downtimes and losses associated with such malware attacks.
About the Author
Raj Samani is an active member of the Information Security industry,
through involvement with numerous initiatives to improve the awareness
and application of security in business and society.
He is currently working as the EMEA Chief Technical Officer for Intel
Security, having previously worked as the Chief Information Security
Officer for a large public sector organisation in the UK.
He was inducted into the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame (2012), won the Virus Bulletin Péter
Ször Award for the paper/investigation he co-authored on the takedown of the Beebone Botnet,
and was named in the UK’s top 50 data leaders and influencers by Information Age.
He previously worked across numerous public sector organisations, in many cyber security and
research orientated working groups across Europe. He is also the author of Syngress books
‘Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid’, “CSA Guide to Cloud Computing”, and technical
editor of “Industrial Network Security (vol2)” and “Cyber Security for decision makers”.
In addition, Raj is currently the Cloud Security Alliance’s Chief Innovation Officer and previously
served as Vice President for Communications in the ISSA UK Chapter where he presided over
the award of Chapter Communications Programme of the Year 2008 and 2009.
He is also Special Advisor for the European CyberCrime Centre, also on the advisory council for
the Infosecurity Europe show, Infosecurity Magazine, and expert on both searchsecurity.co.uk,
and Infosec portal, and regular columnist on Help Net Security.
He has had numerous security papers published, and regularly appears on television
commenting on computer security issues.
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