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Botnet’s Make Contact

Nelson Da Silva

In 2009, the Conficker worm was dissected by researchers, and then fried by the spotlight on a worldwide stage. One year later, we saw the Aurora assaults similarly glow in the headlines. Defense was tense against these two nasties – yet, in each case, easily circumvented by two potent zero-day exploits that crept in from the digital depths. Nelson Da Silva will provide case studies on the zero-days, along with demonstrations.

Nelson will go on to highlight drive-by attacks launched during Conficker's rise, which have provided growth to one of today's largest botnets – Bredolab. He will show sophisticated techniques and structure Bredolab has developed over the course of a year. Illuminating their shadows, Nelson will unveil these threats in order to provide insight and provoke thought for a broader defense strategy, instead of using reactive tunnel-vision that is all too common.

Nelson Da Silva's Biography

Nelson Da Silva is a Systems Engineering Manager at Fortinet and has over 12 years international information security experience in Australia & New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Nelson’s career has spanned companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, AT&T and IBM where he has helped client’s architect and design critical IT infrastructure to secure Information Systems. He has had experience architecting and deploying resilient and highly available systems with technologies such as Firewalls, Intrusion Detection & Prevention Systems, Data Leakage Detection & Prevention and Messaging Security. In addition, Nelson has also performed and delivered several network and application penetration tests for large, small multi-nationals and small business.

Nelson’s experience spans private and public sector organizations on a variety of IT and Information Security related projects. Nelson has spoken at a number of engagements on a variety of security topics, such as: Network Security, Databases, Web Applications, Security Strategy Formation, Information Security Governance and Cybercrime. Nelson holds FCNSP, CISSP and CISA certifications.