Following the easing of pandemic restrictions we are pleased to announce that the Malware & Reverse Engineering Conference will be held in 20-21 February, 2023. We will provide high quality speakers as in previous conferences in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,2018 and 2019 .
MRE-2023 is a bridge between industry, law enforcement and academia, with a strong focus on practical results from research and development projects in malware reversing.
The conference aims to broadly cover the following topics:
- Threat intelligence
- Incident response
- Binary program analysis, and reverse engineering
- Behavioural and attribution analysis of malware
- Impacts into the financial sector and government agencies
- Advanced monitoring schemes for malware attacks
The Venue
Microsoft,
Coffey Room Theatre,
Level 5 / 4 Freshwater Place,
Southbank,
Melbourne CBD
Invited Speakers and Topics
| Name | Organisation | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Chathura Abeydeera | KPMG | Keep Calm and Respond: An Adversarial Mindset Approach to Incident Response |
| Sharif Abuadbba | Data61 | Malware Field: Insights and Trends from the Top 4 Security Conferences |
| Tao Ban | NICT Japan | Research on IoT Anti-Malware Technologies Beyond CPU Architectures |
| Stephen Chey | IBM | Democratising Cybersecurity Skills |
| Shanna Daly & Kayne Naughton | Cosive | Reversing With Friends: Stay on Your Side of the Screen – Dammit |
| Gyle Dela Cruz | Demystifying OSINT for a Future SOC Analyst | |
| Karl Denton | Cybermerc | Can we script it? Scripting Malware Analysis |
| Priya Gnanasekaran | Lab3 | Web3 Security: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of the Decentralised Web |
| Daisuke Inoue | NICT Japan (Virtual) | Cybersecurity Activities in Japan for Security IoT Environment |
| Joarder Kamruzzaman | Federation University | Robust Malware Detection Using Adversarial Retraining |
| Jemima Middis | Monash University (NZ virtual) | The Biggest Bugs in the Net – An Assessment of Ransomware Attacks Targeting Australian Big Business |
| Jon Oliver | VmWare | Handling Alert Fatigue at Scale using a Combination of Machine Learning and Fast Search |
| David Ormrod & Jamie Norton | McGrathNicol | Malware and Threat Intelligence Economies and their impact on cybersecurity risks |
| Sean Park | Trend Micro | A Day of the Adversary Hunter |
| Thomas Roccia | Microsoft | Binary Instrumentation for Malware Analysis: Practical Tools and Techniques |
| Matt Tett | Enex Test Lab | IoT Security Trust Mark – Securing Connected Devices – 15 Years of Lessons Learned |
| Alex Rohl & Chris Davey | University of Adelaide & University of Southern Queensland | Automated Protocol Reverse Engineering using Deep Learning and Heuristics |
| Noushin Shabab | Kaspersky | Topic Trooper – Targets High Profile Victims Using Newly Discovered MQTT Backdoor |
| Paul Watters | Ionize | Industry-Academic Collaboration with an ICSL Retrospective |
| Yang Xiang | Swinburne | Software Vulnerability Detection by Fuzzing and Deep Learning |
Registration
Registration is available from Eventbrite
Contact
This ICSL is committed to providing equal access and participation without regard to race, colour, religion, gender identity, among other things. If you would like to speak at the conference, please contact Dr. Paul Black.
ICSL acknowledges the following key sponsors: Microsoft, Westpac, IBM, and the CSA-FedUni
