Oleg Petrovsky

Oleg Petrovsky Oleg Petrovsky currently works as a senior AV researcher at HPE Security research, where he is involved in the analysis and mitigation of newly discovered malware trends. His work covers automated malware analysis, data clustering, visualization and security of embedded systems. Oleg holds Master of Engineering degree in industrial electronics from Odessa State Polytechnic University. He started his AV career in 1995, first working for CYBEC, supporting the VET antivirus product. In 1999 he joined Computer Associates, and in 2007 began working as a senior AV researcher for Microsoft Malware Protection Center. In March 2014, he joined HP Security research. Throughout his career Oleg has concentrated on analysis of and protection against malware, developing AV tools and conducting research on emerging malware trends. Oleg has authored patent applications, publications for Virus Bulletin, malware research blogs, malware descriptions, and presented at a number of security conferences. His interests include reverse engineering, advanced persistent threats analysis, embedded systems design, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and industrial controllers' firmware security. When he is not busy with work he can be found playing the guitar or hanging from a bouldering wall at a local climbing gym.

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