Phillip Porras

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.

Phillip Porras
Alma materUniversity of California, Irvine
Known forConficker analysis
Awards2013 SRI Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsInformation security
InstitutionsThe Aerospace Corporation
SRI International
Websitewww.csl.sri.com/users/porras/

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]

Education

Porras attended the University of California, Irvine.

Career

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]

Awards and memberships

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]

References
  1. "Our People: Phillip Porras". SRI International. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
  2. Phillip Porras. "Patent Defense". SRI International. Archived from the original on 2013-03-06. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
  3. Bowden, Mark (2012-02-18). "War of the cyber worm: the most destructive attack on the internet". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  4. Bowden, Mark (2010-05-11). "The Enemy Within". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
  5. Phillip Porras; Hassen Saidi; Vinod Yegneswaran (2009-03-19), An Analysis of Conficker, SRI International, archived from the original on 2009-04-01, retrieved 2009-03-29
  6. Bright, Peter (2010-10-06). "Drive-by malware blocked by new BLADE software". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
  7. "BLADE: Secure Defense for Network Browsers". SRI International. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
  8. Krebs, Brian (2010-02-22). "Stopping Stealthy Downloads". Technology Review. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
  9. "SRI Fellows Awards 2000 - Present". SRI International. Archived from the original on 2013-03-04. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
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