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Abhishek Singh

FireEye

Abhishek Singh is a renowned security researcher, currently employed at FireEye. His day to day responsibilities involves analysis of advanced malware, APTs and architecting mitigating solutions. His research is often referenced in national and international media.

He has authored over 50+ research papers, books and patents in the areas of Vulnerability Analysis, Reverse Engineering, Malware Analysis, Intrusion Prevention System. Some of the papers and patents are fundamental to Intrusion Prevention System, vulnerability research, binary analysis and had made an impact by preventing exploitation by unknown malware and undisclosed vulnerabilities. Before joining FireEye, he was employed with Microsoft's Malware Protection Center where some of his key accomplishments include:

• Lead the development of 50+ protocol decoders for Threat Management Gateway and host based IPS.
• Analysis of 0 day vulnerabilities reported in Microsoft’s product.
• Developed various patent pending algorithms for faster analysis of binaries.
• Worldwide patent pending architectural changes in IPS capable of preventing many zero day vulnerabilities before they were reported.
• He was also one of the initial technical members of the Third Brigade Security Center, now part of Trend Micro.

Abhishek, holds a Master of Science in Information Security and a Master of Science in Computer Science, both from the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, India.