Nicolas Brulez ( Improvised Talk )

Nicolas is a Senior Virus Researcher at Websense Security Labs, where he analyzes computer viruses, develops tools, and conducts security research. Prior to that, he was the Chief of Security for Digital River/Silicon Realms where he worked on the SoftwarePassport/Armadillo protection system for 4 years and specialized in anti-reverse engineering techniques for defence against attacks on software protection. He has been doing reverse engineering for over a decade and is an active participant in the field of viral threat research whose results are used by various anti-virus companies and regularly writes for the French security magazine MISC. Nicolas has authored a number of papers, lectured on assembly programming and reverse engineering at various computer engineering schools, and frequently speaks at international security conferences, including: RECON (Canada), PacSec (Japan), RuxCon (Australia), SSTIC (France), Virus Bulletin, Toorcon (USA), and APWG (Brussels). Nicolas is an associate researcher at the Virology and Cryptology Laboratory of "Ecole Supérieur et d'Application des Transmissions" and also the official reverse engineering instructor at RECON.

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