Phillip Porras | |
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Alma mater | University of California, Irvine |
Known for | Conficker analysis |
Awards | 2013 SRI Fellow |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Information security |
Institutions |
The Aerospace Corporation SRI International |
Website |
www |
Phillip A. Porras is a computer scientist and security researcher known for his work combating the Conficker worm. Porras leads the Internet Security Group in SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory.
He was previously a manager of the Trusted Computer Systems Department of The Aerospace Corporation. Porras holds 12 U.S. patents, and was named an SRI Fellow in 2013. [1]
Porras attended the University of California, Irvine.
Porras was an author of patents involved in the 2008 case SRI International, Inc. v. Internet Security Systems, Inc. [2]
During the Conficker worm's initial attack, Porras was running a honeypot and was one of the first security researchers to notice it; and was part of the "Conficker Cabal" that helped combat the worm. [3] [4] Porras' team in SRI published an extensive analysis of the worm. [5] In 2010, Porras was a co-author of BLADE, a collaboration between SRI and Georgia Tech researchers designed to prevent drive-by download malware attacks. [6] [7] [8]
Porras was named an SRI Fellow in 2013 for his long-term work in information security and malware analysis, and his recent research on OpenFlow. [9]
Phillip Porras | |
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Alma mater | University of California, Irvine |
Known for | Conficker analysis |
Awards | 2013 SRI Fellow |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Information security |
Institutions |
The Aerospace Corporation SRI International |
Website |
www |
Phillip A. Porras is a computer scientist and security researcher known for his work combating the Conficker worm. Porras leads the Internet Security Group in SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory.
He was previously a manager of the Trusted Computer Systems Department of The Aerospace Corporation. Porras holds 12 U.S. patents, and was named an SRI Fellow in 2013. [1]
Porras attended the University of California, Irvine.
Porras was an author of patents involved in the 2008 case SRI International, Inc. v. Internet Security Systems, Inc. [2]
During the Conficker worm's initial attack, Porras was running a honeypot and was one of the first security researchers to notice it; and was part of the "Conficker Cabal" that helped combat the worm. [3] [4] Porras' team in SRI published an extensive analysis of the worm. [5] In 2010, Porras was a co-author of BLADE, a collaboration between SRI and Georgia Tech researchers designed to prevent drive-by download malware attacks. [6] [7] [8]
Porras was named an SRI Fellow in 2013 for his long-term work in information security and malware analysis, and his recent research on OpenFlow. [9]