Coming Events

The next AMTSO Members Meeting will be on 25 & 26 February 2010 in Santa Clara, CA, USA and will be hosted by McAfee. The meeting will take place at the McAfee office in Santa Clara.

 

McAfee has been able to arrange a good deal with the Avatar Hotel (www.avatarhotel.com) which is within walking distance of the meeting venue. The room-price will be $79.00 + tax per room, per night. We suggest you book this hotel so all members will be in the same hotel.

 

To book the hotel, the hotel gave us three options to make the reservation.
1. Send an e-mail to Max Schultz, mschultz@jdvhotels.com
2. Send a fax (+1-408.988.2888)
3. Call the hotel (+1-408-454-6883)

 

The information you need to supply is that the booking has the group-code “McAfee AMTSO Group Block”, your name, e-mail address, arrival and departure dates and a credit card number to guarantee the reservation. The hotel will send you a confirmation by e-mail. Cancellations, if necessary, must be made 24 hours prior to arrival date to avoid late cancellation fee (1 night’s room/tax).

Agenda (Preliminary)

Thursday 25th February 2010

08.30-09.15 Registration
09.15-09.20 Welcome
09.20-09.30 Logistics by the hosts
09.30-10.45 From and by the Board:

  • Good standing and holding office
  • AMTSO compliance/conformance/branding

10.45-11.00 Coffee/Tea
11.00-12.30 From the Board:

  • New logos: obtaining, terms of use
  • Discussion: Review Analysis Board/Committees: What have we learned?

12.30-13.15 Lunch
13.15-15.00: Discussions

  • A. Discussion: Should the RAB and the RAC also address conformance to our Best Practices? This question comes from comments people at VB and AVAR made.
  • B. Discussion and Voting on Virus Creation paper redraft
  • C. Discussion on updating other documents. Which need refreshing?

15.00-15.15 Coffee/Tea
15.15-17.00

  • A. Start working on a document to address the differences in FPs. Some files are more prevalent, or more important to a system than others. For the most part, current tests treat all FPs the same. But are they? This has to extend to a document covering general sample validation, statistical relevance and samples prevalence. As we all have experienced the "quality" meanwhile dictate the test result (regardless of the applied methodology)
  • B. EICAR test file (Simon's suggestion) short paper

18.00-*  Dinner

Friday 26 February 2010

09.00-09.10 Welcome
09.10-10.45 Selection of the topics and arranging the groups

  • A. Continue on the "Whole Product Protection Testing Guidelines" document
  • B. Continue on the "Samples selection for testing" document
  • C. Continue on the "Glossary"
  • D. Continue on the "AMTSO Performance testing guidelines"
  • E. Continue on FP paper?
  • F. Continue on EICAR test file paper?

10.45-11.00 Coffee/Tea
11.00-12.30 Workgroup Worktime
12.30-13.15 Lunch
13.15-15.00 Workgroup Worktime
15.00-15.15 Coffee/Tea
15.15-15.45 Report/Presentation of Workgroup #1
15.45-16.15 Report/Presentation of Workgroup #2
16.15-16.45 Report/Presentation of Workgroup #3
16.45-17.15 Report/Presentation of Workgroup #4
17.15-17.30 Closure

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