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TH ASSOCIATION of Anti-Virus Asia Researchers (A V AR) International Con¬ference is taking place in New Delhi, India from 10th-12th December 2008.

New Delhi: A V AR International Conference 2008, the international festival ofIT security industry, will be held in India this year. This is the 11th conference of A V AR and for the first time the conference is taking place in India. Quick Heal Technologies has been awarded to host 2008 conference in India. Over last 10 years of history A V AR conference has earned a reputation in the IT security industry as the premier event on anti-virus technologies and mal ware threats. Series of technical and corporate presentations along with an accompanying exhibition ensures that the conference has broad appeal across the IT security arena. The conference provides the focus for industry, which represents an opportunity for experts in the field to share their research papers, discuss methods and technology, share the experience and set new standards. This event is also considered high on the part of people networking and getting introduced to lots of people from all over the world as attendees come to meet with and interact and learn from those who put the security technologies into practice in the real world.

"I am sure A V AR 2008 will be a great success and will prove that India can be home to such a big event in IT Security. This is great opportunity to learn from and interact with worlds top security experts" says Sanjay Katkar, Technical Director and CTO at Quick Heal Technologies. Keynote presentation includes "Fighting International Organized Online Crime" by Mr. Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer, F-Secure Corporation, Finland. Mr. Mikko Hypponen is famous for the memorable keynotes and presentations he has delivered in international conferences such Black Hat, RSA and InfoSec Europe. He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web in 2007 by the PC World magazine. Other interesting presentations
include:



"Cyber Threats in 2018" by Eugene Kaspersky, Founder and CEO, Kaspersky Labs.
"Search Engines - How Far are they Trustworthy?" by Alice Decker, Threat Researcher, Trend Micro. "WOW64 Woes for Anti-Virus Products" by Abhijit Kulkarni, Program Manager Development & Prakash Jagdale, Sr. Software Architect, Quick Heal Technologies "The Threat is in the Air" by Enrique Gonzalez, Response Coordinator, Microsoft, Ireland.

Attendees involve Information Security Professionals and consultants, Network and System administrators, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware Researchers, Security Software Developers and Testers, IT Heads of Large Banks and Financial Institutes, Information Security Students, faculties and teachers, Cyber Crime Prevention cells and people form Intelligence department Cyber Security officials from military and para-military departments.

This conference is going to give these professionals a never before chance to listen to and meet and interact with worlds top security professionals and get to know about current and future trends in Internet Security.

Security companies from all over the world are participating in the event. There are paper presentations from Microsoft, Symantec, Trend Micro, Q).1ick Heal Technologies, McAfee, Webroot, F-Secure, A VG, ESET and K7 Computing.
K7 Computing Founder & CEO Mr. J.

Kesavardhanan said, "I am extremely happy that A V AR is to happen in India this year. I call on everybody in the IT community not to miss this great opportunity, since the TOP Security Experts and Thought Leaders will be there."
A V AR 2008 also has few presentations from Computer Emergency Response Teams of different countries that cover interesting topics as:

How Korean CERT implemented "StormTrap: Undetectable Mitigation of P2P Botnet" successfully to tackle ever growing problem of Storm Botnet in Korea.
Anti-bot Countermeasures used by Japanese CERT. The conference will conclude panel with a discussion on last day. Prominent industry personalities as panelist will discuss on the on-line frauds.

About AVAR
A V AR (Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers) was founded in June 1998.
The primary objective of A V AR is to prevent the spread and damage caused by malicio'us software, and to develop cooperative relationship among anti malicious software experts in Asia. A V AR is independent and not -for-profit organization which is oriented in Asia Pacific region. A V AR consists of prominent experts on computer virus from various areas such as Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, UK, and U.S.A. AV AR's independence helps it to play an important role to fight against computer virus globally and to raise users' awareness on computer security issues.