Christian Papathanasiou is a Security Consultant for Trustwave. He is part of SpiderLabs - the advanced security team at Trustwave responsible for incident response, penetration testing and application security tests for Trustwave's clients. Christian's research interests include Linux kernel rootkit/anti-rootkit technology, algorithmic trading and web application security. Christian holds a MSc with Distinction in Information Security from the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London and a CISSP. He has consulted internationally in the space/defense/commercial and financial sectors in all matters relating to Information Security. Christian is also a qualified Chemical Engineer having graduated with a MEng(Hons) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.