AMTSO - Board of Directors
- Righard J. Zwienenberg
- David Harley
- Roel Schouwenberg
- Mark Kennedy
- Gabor Szappanos
- Karel Obluk
- John Hawes
- Dmitry Gryaznov
- Luis Corrons
Former Board of Directors Members
Righard J. Zwienenberg
Righard J. Zwienenberg started dealing with computer viruses in 1988 after encountering the first virus problems on a system at the Technical University of Delft. His interest thus kindled, Zwienenberg has studied virus behaviour and presented solutions and detection schemes ever since. Initially he started as an independent consultant, then in 1991 he co-founded CSE Ltd where he was the Research and Development Manager. In October 1995, Zwienenberg left CSE and one month later he started at the Research and Development department of ESaSS BV - developers of ThunderBYTE - to reinforce the team and have some new challenges in life. In 1998, Norman Data Defense Systems acquired ESaSS and Zwienenberg joined the Norman Development team where he was working on the engine of Norman Virus Control and represented Norman in several cooperation-bodies. In 2005 Zwienenberg took the role of Chief Research Officer at Norman. After 16 years, on 31 October 2011 Zwienenberg left Norman to look for different opportunities. After AMTSO was formed, Zwienenberg was chosen as its president.
He serves on the Board of Directors for Anti-Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR), the Technical Overview Board of the WildList Organization. Zwienenberg has been a member of CARO since late 1992. He is a frequent speaker at conferences - among these Virus Bulletin, EICAR, AVAR, RSA, InfoSec, etc - and seminars. His interests are not limited to viruses but have broadened to include general security issues and encryption technologies over the past years. His hobbies include Star Trek, Rock & Roll and Rhythm and Blues music, theatre and movies. A few years ago he took up the art of magic again and playing the drums as well.
David Harley
David Harley has worked in independent anti-malware research since 1989, working in support, system administration and security analysis at Imperial Cancer Research Fund, where he was also responsible for testing, evaluation and procurement. From 2001-2006 he worked for the UK's National Health Service, where ran the Threat Assessment Centre with particular responsibility for email security.After a couple of years of authoring and consultancy, he joined ESET as a full-time researcher in 2008 and is now Director of Malware Intelligence. His books include "Viruses Revealed" and "The AVIEN Malware Defense Guide" (both of which included chapters on testing and evaluation). He has contributed to many other books and publications, and many white papers, conference papers etc. He is COO of AVIEN and MD of Small Blue-Green World. His qualifications include CISSP, BS7799 (or whatever it is nowadays),and ITIL service management, and he is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.
Roel Schouwenberg
Roel Schouwenberg is a Senior Anti-Virus Researcher with Kaspersky Lab.
Roel has nearly a decade of malware research and analysis experience. He monitors the state of malware in North America providing advanced analysis of malware.
Roel focuses on classic virus techniques that are used in today's malware and improving proactive detection capabilities. He conducts research into file format parsing vulnerabilities such as malicious PDFs and is also heavily involved with the issues of anti-malware testing and is one of the founding members of AMTSO.
Mark Kennedy
Mark joined Symantec as an engineer in 1991, and spent his first nine years there working on Norton Utilities before making the transition to computer security. In 2001, Mark developed Symantec's Script Blocking
technology in response to Java Script and VB Script based threats, and presented a paper on it at Virus Bulletin. In 2002, Mark became the architect on the Anti-Virus engines, and moved to head up Symantecs Behavior Blocking engines in 2004.
Throughout his tenure in the security industry, Mark has been increasingly concerned with method of testing security software. In May of 2007, Mark presented a paper on Dynamic Testing at the first CARO workshop in Iceland. Mark's engagement with other AV Vendors and testers led to the formation of the AMTSO in Bilbao, Spain in January, 2008. Mark has been actively involved with AMTSO since its inception.
Gabor Szappanos
Gabor graduated from the Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest with a degree in physics. His first job was in the Computer and Automation Research Institute, developing diagnostic software and hardware for nuclear power plants.
Gabor started antivirus work in 1995 and has been developing freeware antivirus solutions in his spare time. He also did on-contract work in developing the Virus ALERT for Macros product family. He was also an editor of a Hungarian magazine, Uj Alaplap, running the section "Virus Patrol", until the magazine discontinued.
He joined VirusBuster in 2001 where he was responsible for taking care of macro virus and script malware. Since 2002 he has been the head of the virus lab. He is a frequent speaker at antivirus conferences and has authored several articles on malware analysis. Since 2008 he is a member of the board of directors of AMTSO.
Karel Obluk
Karel Obluk is the Chief Technology Officer of AVG Technologies. Karel graduated from Computer Science at the Brno University of Technology where he also received his Ph.D. in Computer Science. He started as a developer of proprietary database systems for a small local software vendor. His interest in fighting viruses dates back to 1989 when he first encountered Yankee Doodle on his PC.
Karel joined GRISOFT (former name of AVG Technologies) in 2003 to lead development. Since 2005 he has held the role of CTO and for over a year he also served as an acting CEO.
Karel lives in Brno, Czech republic.
John Hawes
John is Technical Consultant and Test Team Director at Virus Bulletin. His work there includes running the VB100 testing and certification system, which he has maintained since joining the company in 2006, much of the time single-handed. He also produces product reviews and resources for the VB website, and in the little free time left over takes on freelance writing work, covering a range of security topics.
John graduated from the University of Oxford in 1999, and after a brief spell testing educational software at Research Machines he moved to the test lab at Sophos in 2000, specialising in testing on non-Windows platforms. He now has over a decade of experience testing anti-malware solutions, has spoken at security conferences and has been a keen contributor to the efforts of AMTSO from the early days of the organisation.
Dmitry Gryaznov
Dmitry Gryaznov graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1984.
Dmitry is one of the pioneers in the area of computer anti-malware research, working in that field since mid-1980s.
Among his many accomplishments are ground-breaking research in anti-malware heuristics and "in-the-cloud" detection methods. Currently Dmitry is a Senior Research Architect with McAfee Labs.
Former Board of Directors Members
Vernon Jackson, IBM
Matt Williamson, Sana Security
Jaimee King, Symantec
Andrew Lee, ESET
Igor Muttik, McAfee
Andreas Marx, AV-Test
Stuart Taylor, Sophos
