Samir ModySamir Mody is the VP of Threat Research at K7 Computing. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 2000 with a first-class Master's degree in chemical engineering, economics and management. Immediately after graduation he joined Sophos, UK, where he spent over nine years, the latter three of them as Threat Operations Manager at SophosLabs. Since August 2010 he has been the Lead of the Threat Control Lab at K7 Computing's headquarters in Chennai. He has actively contributed to the IEEE Taggant System project and other IT security industry initiatives such as AMTSO, including contributing to its seminal Testing Standards. He has co-authored and/or presented papers and participated in panel discussions at various international IT security conferences including EICAR 2006, VB2010/VB2013/VB2015, AVAR 2010-12, AVAR 2015. He has been instrumental in the creation of K7 Academy, a cybersecurity training division of K7 Computing. Samir's personal interests include reading (philosophy, politics, history, literature, and economics), sport and classical music.