Working Together: Law enforcement and private sector botnet takedowns
Computer criminals regularly construct large distributed attack networks known as botnets. These networks are comprised of hijacked computers that an attacker can use to send spam, commit financial fraud or launch cyber-attacks. This talk aims to describe the approaches of botnet takedowns from the perspective of law enforcement agencies and the AV industry using examples from recent take-downs and discusses success stories when private and public sectors work together to tackle a common foe.
About the speakers
Alan Neville
Threat Intelligence Analyst
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Symantec
Alan Neville is a member of the Attack Investigations Team (AIT) housed in Symantec’s Security Response Center in Dublin where he leads investigations into high-profile attacks and is responsible for identifying, analyzing and responding to such attacks and threats.
Alan also represents Symantec as a media spokesperson on topical security issues.
Previously, Alan worked on the operations team in Symantec’s Security Response Team as a Malware Analyst before moving into AIT.
More recently, Alan has been involved in investigations surrounding Dragonfly, Turla and take operations such as Ramnit and ZeroAccess.
Alan holds an MS.c in Security and Forensics from Dublin City University.
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Tom Grasso
Supervisory Special Agent
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Cyber Division (CYD), FBI
Tom Grasso has been an FBI Agent since 1998 and has worked for the FBI’s Regional Computer Crime Squad in Chicago and the High Technology Crimes Task Force in Pittsburgh.
He has also served as the FBI Liaison to the CERT/CC at Carnegie Mellon University.
Tom is now part of the FBI’s Cyber Division and is assigned to the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) in Pittsburgh, a joint partnership between law enforcement, academia, and industry.
Tom is also an Adjunct Professor of Criminology at La Roche College in Pittsburgh.
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