Omer Zohar

A security researcher for over a decade, Omer has been conducting multidisciplinary research on malware behavior and how to detect them. Omer is currently Heading the research team at Airo Security and manages the Lab Operations, dedicated to hunting Mac Malware and Protecting Mac Consumers. Previously, as Head of Research for TopSpin Security, where he investigated malware C&C infrastructure and protocols to create a behavior based detection engine that correlates over a time series network and reputation data along with a deception overlay. He authored 'Deceive and Succeed: Using Deception for Post-Breach Detection' (Defcon 2016) where he investigated how malicious actors interact with various deception mechanisms to measure their effectiveness.

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