Damballa Principal Scientist to Present at USENIX Security Symposium

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Damballa Inc., the company transforming the fight against cyber threats, today announced that Principal Scientist Manos Antonakakis will be a featured speaker at the 20^th Annual USENIX Security Symposium, Friday, August 12, 11:00-12:30 p.m. PT. The conference takes place August 8-12 and the full agenda can be found at: http://www.usenix.org/events/sec11/.

Antonakakis’s presentation titled Detecting Malware Domains at the Upper DNS Hierarchy, will introduce Kopis, an industry-changing early warning threat discovery system that monitors domain look-up behaviors across ‘autonomous’ networks, and is uniquely capable of operating at different levels of the Internet hierarchy. Kopis is one of two recent inventions from Damballa Labs, the research and threat intelligence arm of Damballa, and can detect emerging cyber threats many weeks or months before the initial malware samples are discovered by the security community.

The research paper is now available on the Damballa website at http://www.damballa.com/downloads/a_pubs/Kopis.pdf.

WHAT:	Session: Detecting Malware Domains at the Upper DNS Hierarchy
WHEN:	Friday, August 12, 2011; 11:00 -12:30 p.m. PT
WHO:	Manos Antonakakis, Principal Scientist, Damballa
WHERE:	20^th Annual USENIX Security Symposium, The Westin St. Francis, 335 Powell Street, San Francisco, Calif.

About Damballa - Damballa is a pioneer in the fight against cybercrime. Damballa provides the only network security solution that detects the remote control communication that criminals use to breach networks to steal personal and intellectual information, and conduct espionage or other fraudulent transactions. Patent-pending solutions from Damballa are platform and system-agnostic, protecting networks with any type of device including PCs, Macs, smart phones, as well as mobile and embedded systems. Damballa customers include Fortune 1000 companies, Internet and telecommunications service providers, government agencies and educational organizations. Privately held, Damballa is headquartered in Atlanta. http://www.damballa.com