Igor Muttik (born 1962 in Russia) is a computer security expert, researcher and inventor.

Igor Muttik
Igor Muttik
of McAfee (Part of Intel Security)
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Russia

Career

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Igor Muttik is a Senior Principal Research Architect with McAfee which is part of Intel Corporation since 2011. He started researching computer malware in 1980s when anti-virus industry was in its infancy. Muttik holds a PhD in physics and mathematics from the Moscow State University. He has been a member of CARO (Computer Antivirus Research Organization) since 1994, and worked as a virus researcher for Dr. Solomon's Software. Since 1998 Muttik was running McAfee’s anti-malware research in EMEA and switched to his architectural role in 2002.

In 2008 he was one of the co-founders of AMTSO[1] (Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization) and was on the Board of AMTSO for 3 years. Muttik was also a co-founder of Industry Connections Security Group[2] (ICSG is part of IEEE) - he is the chair of the taggant system working group,[3] vice-chair of the ICSG[2] and CMX (clean file metadata exchange) working groups.[4] The taggant system and CMX are both part of AMSS (Anti-Malware Support Service).[5]

He is a regular speaker at major international security conferences like Black Hat Briefings,[6][7][8] RSA Conference, DEF CON,[9] Virus Bulletin, EICAR. Muttik lives in the UK

Muttik is a visiting professor at the Information Security Group[10] at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is heading McAfee's work for the security research of mobile devices funded by EPSRC:[11]

His current work is focused on the architecture of security solutions for smart devices and on hardware-assisted security technologies.

Packer controversy

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In May 2009 Muttik's blog about the risks associated with the use of software packers caused criticism by Rob Rosenberger.[16][17] Despite this incident Muttik is working closely today with several software companies developing software packers (like Themida) on the taggant system.[citation needed]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "AMTSO (Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization)".
  2. ^ a b "ICSG IEEE (Industry Connections Security Group)". Archived from the original on April 18, 2011.
  3. ^ "Taggant System by ICSG IEEE". Archived from the original on August 5, 2011.
  4. ^ "CMX System by ICSG IEEE" (PDF).
  5. ^ "AMSS ICSG (Anti-Malware Support Service by ICSG IEEE)".
  6. ^ "BlackHat presentation 2011" (PDF).
  7. ^ "BlackHat speakers 2013".
  8. ^ "BlackHat speakers 2014".
  9. ^ "DefCon recording".
  10. ^ "RHUL ISG Visiting Staff". Archived from the original on 2022-11-30. Retrieved 2014-10-29.
  11. ^ "Fighting the rise of the app attackers".
  12. ^ "EPSRC MobSec project".
  13. ^ "RHUL ISG S2Lab MobSec project".
  14. ^ "EPSRC ACID project".
  15. ^ "EPSRC App Guarden project".
  16. ^ "Rob Rosenberger's blog".
  17. ^ "Mary Landesman's blog". Archived from the original on 2014-04-24. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
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