Name: Kevin McNamee

Director of Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Labs

Kevin McNamee is director of Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Labs and is responsible for the security research team that supports the ALU’s cloud based malware detection system. Previously he was director of security research at ALU’s Bell Labs specializing in the analysis of malware propagation and detection. Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent he worked at Timestep & Milkyway Networks. He has taught at Algonquin Collage and McGill University and has recently presented at BlackHat, RSA, (ISC)2 and SECTOR security conferences.

Presentation Details:

Is Your Smart Phone at Risk from Malware: Mobile devices are becoming the target of choice for cybercriminals. This presentation will provide an in-depth view of the mobile malware that is currently active on the Internet. It will describe how you get infected, what the malware does, how it is monetized and the impact it has on network resources and the user experience. It will feature several live demonstrations of actual malware and draw on network based malware detection results from deployments that monitor the network traffic from over 100 million mobile devices in major carriers around the world.