Rohit Dhamankar

Director, DVLabs
Rohit Dhamankar is the Director of Security Research at TippingPoint, where he leads the Digital Vaccine group. His group is responsible for developing protection filters to address vulnerabilities, viruses, worms, Trojans, P2P, spyware, and other applications to incorporate them into TippingPoint's intrusion prevention systems. He co-authors the weekly SANS Institutes's @RISK newsletter, which ranks the severity level of new vulnerabilities and is sent to over 200,000 subscribers. Rohit is also the Director for the SANS Top-20 Internet Security Attack Target project.
Prior to TippingPoint, Rohit was employed at Cisco Systems, where he worked as a software developer for Cisco's Secure Intrusion Detection System and Cisco Secure Scanner. He is a frequent speaker at security conferences, and holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from UT, Austin and an M.Sc in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India.
- Appearances:
- The Art of Developing Effective Intrusion Detection/Prevention Signatures
2008-08-02 Black Hat USA 2008 Training- The Art of Developing Effective Intrusion Detection/Prevention Signatures
- The Seven Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques and What's Coming Next
2008-04-23 Infosecurity Europe- The Seven Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques and What's Coming Next
- The Seven Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques, and What's Coming Next
2008-04-08 RSA Conference 2008- The Seven Most Dangerous New Attack Techniques, and What's Coming Next
- PISA: Protocol Identification via Statistical Analysis
2007-08-01 BlackHat US- PISA: Protocol Identification via Statistical Analysis
- Encrypted Protocol Identification via Statistical Analysis
2007-03-23 ShmooCon- Encrypted Protocol Identification via Statistical Analysis
- SANS Top 20 Launch
2006-05-23 AusCERT- SANS Top 20 Launch
- Blog Entries
- ThreatLinQ: Javascript Bad Juju
created 2008-08-14 (0 comments, 286 views)- ThreatLinQ: Javascript Bad Juju
- ThreatLinQ: ThreatLinQ Launch By DVLabs
created 2008-08-11 (0 comments, 455 views)- ThreatLinQ: ThreatLinQ Launch By DVLabs
- Microsoft Black Tuesday May 2007
created 2007-05-08 (1 comments, 2845 views)- Microsoft Black Tuesday May 2007
