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Rohit Dhamankar

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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:
  • Effective Techniques in Vulnerability Analysis and Intrusion Prevention
    2009-09-18 SANS Network Security 2009
  • Building a Better Mousetrap: Effective Techniques in Vulnerability Analysis and Intrusion Prevention
    2009-07-25 Black Hat USA 2009 Training
  • The Art of Developing Effective Intrusion Detection/Prevention Signatures
    2008-08-02 Black Hat USA 2008 Training
  • 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
    2008-04-08 RSA Conference 2008
  • PISA: Protocol Identification via Statistical Analysis
    2007-08-01 BlackHat US
  • Encrypted Protocol Identification via Statistical Analysis
    2007-03-23 ShmooCon
  • Hackers and Internet Security Threats
    2006-12-18 Arirang TV Interview, Seoul
  • Keynote: Internet Security Threats 2006 and Beyond
    2006-12-13 CONCERT: Conference of Asian CERTs
  • SANS Top-20
    2006-11-13 UK NISCC Security Conference
  • SANS Top 20 Launch
    2006-05-23 AusCERT
  • SANS Top-20
    2005-11-22 UK NISCC Security Conference
  • Keynote on Intrusion Prevention Systems
    2005-10-07 ICETE 2005
  • Preventing Exploitation of Your VoIP Network
    2005-09-13 RSA 2005 Power Days
  • Preventing Exploitation of Your VoIP Network
    2005-02-15 RSA 2005
  • Preventing Exploitation of Your VoIP Network
    2005-02-15 RSA 2005
  • Tutorial on Intrusion Prevention Systems
    2005-02-14 RSA 2005
    • Blog Entries
  • IPS Testing Realities
    created 2009-09-14 (0 comments, 3983 views)
  • ThreatLinQ: Javascript Bad Juju
    created 2008-08-14 (0 comments, 3656 views)
  • ThreatLinQ: ThreatLinQ Launch By DVLabs
    created 2008-08-11 (0 comments, 3136 views)
  • Microsoft Black Tuesday May 2007
    created 2007-05-08 (1 comments, 4791 views)