Igor Muttik

{{Short description|Russian computer scientist (born 1962)}}

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Igor Muttik (born 1962 in Russia) is a computer security expert, researcher and inventor.

Career

Igor Muttik is a Senior Principal Research Architect with McAfee which is part of Intel Corporation since 2011. He started researching computer malware in 1980s when anti-virus industry was in its infancy. Muttik holds a PhD in physics and mathematics from the Moscow State University. He has been a member of CARO (Computer Antivirus Research Organization) since 1994, and worked as a virus researcher for Dr. Solomon's Software. Since 1998 Muttik was running McAfee’s anti-malware research in EMEA and switched to his architectural role in 2002.

In 2008 he was one of the co-founders of AMTSO{{cite web |url=http://www.amtso.org |title=AMTSO (Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization)}} (Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization) and was on the Board of AMTSO for 3 years. Muttik was also a co-founder of Industry Connections Security Group{{cite web |url=http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/icsg/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110418042016/http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/icsg/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2011 |title=ICSG IEEE (Industry Connections Security Group)}} (ICSG is part of IEEE) - he is the chair of the taggant system working group,{{cite web |url=https://standards.ieee.org/news/2011/icsg_software.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805202220/http://standards.ieee.org/news/2011/icsg_software.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 5, 2011 |title=Taggant System by ICSG IEEE}} vice-chair of the ICSG and CMX (clean file metadata exchange) working groups.{{cite web |url=https://media.blackhat.com/us-13/US-13-Kennedy-CMX-IEEE-Clean-File-Metadata-Exchange-WP.pdf |title=CMX System by ICSG IEEE}} The taggant system and CMX are both part of AMSS (Anti-Malware Support Service).{{cite web |url=https://standards.ieee.org/products-programs/ams/ |title=AMSS ICSG (Anti-Malware Support Service by ICSG IEEE)}}

He is a regular speaker at major international security conferences like Black Hat Briefings,{{cite web |url=https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Kennedy/BH_US_11_KennedyMuttik_IEEE_Slides.pdf |title=BlackHat presentation 2011}}{{cite web |url=https://www.blackhat.com/us-13/speakers/Igor-Muttik.html |title=BlackHat speakers 2013}}{{cite web |url=https://www.blackhat.com/us-14/speakers/Igor-Muttik.html |title=BlackHat speakers 2014}} RSA Conference, DEF CON,{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE7fUH7CmCk |title=DefCon recording}} Virus Bulletin, EICAR. Muttik lives in the UK

Muttik is a visiting professor at the Information Security Group{{cite web |url=http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/bin/staff-dir.php?type=V |title=RHUL ISG Visiting Staff |access-date=2014-10-29 |archive-date=2022-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130154207/http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/bin/staff-dir.php?type=V |url-status=dead }} at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is heading McAfee's work for the security research of mobile devices funded by EPSRC:{{cite web |url=http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/appattackers/ |title=Fighting the rise of the app attackers}}

  • MobSec{{cite web |url=http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/L022710/1 |title=EPSRC MobSec project}}{{cite web|url=http://s2lab.isg.rhul.ac.uk/projects/mobsec/ |title=RHUL ISG S2Lab MobSec project}}
  • ACID{{cite web |url=http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/L022699/1 |title=EPSRC ACID project}} and
  • AppGuarden{{cite web |url=http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/K032666/1 | title=EPSRC App Guarden project}} projects.

His current work is focused on the architecture of security solutions for smart devices and on hardware-assisted security technologies.

See also

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