Fyodor is a researcher with TrendMicro Taiwan and holds a Ph.D. from EE, National Taiwan University. An early Snort developer, and open source evangelist as well as a “happy” programmer. Prior to that, Fyodor professional experience includes several years as a threat analyst and over eight years as an information security analyst responding to network, security breaches and conducting remote network security assessments and network intrusion tests for the majority of regional banking, finance, semiconductor and telecommunication organizations. Fyodor is an active member of local security community and has spoken at a number of conferences regionally and globally.