Events

2022

CARO Workshop 2022
May 4-6, 2022 | Brno, Czech Republic

We are proud to announce that the 15th international CARO Workshop – an annual gathering of cybersecurity experts, is being held this year by Avast! Every year the conference takes place in a different country, and this year we decided to meet in Brno, Czech Republic.

This year’s theme is Hunting Threats, Hunting Criminals.

The event’s purpose is to share information, relevant and valuable knowledge, and experiences within the security expert community. There are no photos, and no video records. Just live talks and a lot of in-person networking opportunities.

Register your interest here.

Learn more > caro2022.org.

2021

CyberSec&AI Connected 2021
Online, November 4-5, 2021

CyberSec&AI Connected is an annual conference linking you to the global AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity communities — facilitating the exchange of ideas, information, and insight.

The conference will explore the themes of AI for privacy protection and security, revealing the challenges and opportunities facing all of us working and researching at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity.

“CyberSec&AI Connected 2020 has been the best virtual conference experience I‘ve had. Throughout the day, the speakers did an excellent job of presenting a diverse range of interesting and applicable topics of AI/ML use in the security space in a clear, intuitive manner. As always a highlight of in-person events, I enjoyed connecting and discussing my talk and other talks with my peers.” Bobby Filar (Lead Data Scientist at Elastic Security)

Registration and Ticket Sales & Registration are open now! Buy your ticket here.

Find out more information about the program and speakers > cybersecai.com

Machine Learning Prague 2021
Online, February 26-28, 2021

Join Avast experts at Machine Learning Prague 2021 and learn more about our researches in artificial intelligence, IoT, and network security.

Saturday (February 27, 2021) at 1:30 PM CEST
Fireside chat with live Q&A: Deep Learning vs. Rule-based Systems in Practical Applications
Avast experts: Petr Somol (AI Research Director at Avast) and Viliam Lisy ( Principal Scientist at Avast & Associate Professor at Czech Technical University in Prague)

Deep learning has achieved unprecedented performance in a wide range of domains ranging from computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing to game playing. However, many industrial systems still rely on human-written and maintain rule-based systems to perform classification. The reasons include better explainability of the rule-based systems and their modularity, which is crucial in dealing with non-stationary problems. We will discuss each approach’s advantages and disadvantages and the possibilities of getting the best of both worlds.

Sunday (February 28, 2021) at 9:30 AM CEST
Presentation: Harnessing relational learning for explainable learning
Avast speaker: Tomas Pevny (Consulting Scientist at Avast)

While most machine learning methods assume that samples are vectors, matrices, or sequences, they have a rich structure in many real-world problems. While this structure makes the manual design of features non-trivial, I see it as an inductive bias that should drive models’ design. In this talk, I will introduce a simple yet powerful framework for learning on structured data. A side yet important feature is the explainability of decisions, which results from ingesting data as-is instead of devising artificial features. A concrete implementation of the framework will be demoed on data from various stages of analysis of malware.

Learn more > https://www.mlprague.com/

October 2020

CyberSec&AI Connected 2020

Prague, Czech Republic, October 8-9

CyberSec&AI Connected is a virtual conference linking you to the global AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity communities — facilitating the exchange of ideas, information, and insight.

The conference will explore the themes of AI for privacy and security, revealing the challenges and opportunities facing all of us working and researching at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity.

Keynote Speakers
ROGER DINGLEDINE, Director, Researcher and Co-founder, Tor Project
GARRY KASPAROV, Chess Grandmaster & Avast Security Ambassador

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June 2019

IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
Stockholm, Sweden, June 17-19

“Geost botnet. The discovery story of a new Android banking trojan from an OpSec error” by @annakin

Security BSides
Athens, Greece, June 22

“Tell me where you are? – a case study of GPS trackers security” by @hron & @chrisaidos
“From Global to Local: How a different view can change perspectives”by @sirmer & @chrisaidos

August 2019

Black Hat USA
Las Vegas, USA, August 3-8

“Tell me where you are? – a case study of GPS trackers security” by @hron & @chrisaidos
“Geost botnet. The discovery story of a new Android banking trojan from an OpSec error” by Anna Shirokova

Def Con 27
Las Vegas, USA, August 8-11

“Geost botnet. The discovery story of a new Android banking trojan from an OpSec error” by Anna Shirokova

Supply Chain Cybersecurity Summit
Arlington, USA, August 12-19

“Bring your own threat – supply chain attacks using personal IoT devices in companies” by Martin Hron

September 2019

r2con
Barcelona, Spain, September 4-7

“The RetDec/radare2/Cutter alliance” by Peter Matula and Marek Milkovic

October 2019

Virus Bulletin
London, UK, October 2-4

“Geost botnet. The discovery story of a new Android banking trojan from an OpSec error” by Anna Shirokova
“Spoofing in reeds with Rietspoof” by Jan Sirmer and Luigi Camastra

ShellCon

San Pedro, CA, October 11-12

“Tell me where you are” by Martin Hron

Spark+AI Summit Europe

Amsterdam, NL, October 15-17

“AI on Spark for Malware Analysis and Anomalous Threat Detection” by Jakub Sanojca and Joao Da Silva

CyberSec & AI Prague

Prague, CZ, October 25

November 2019

AVAR

Osaka, JP, November 6-9

“Fast Rev-eng Is Definitely Awesome (Android Frida tutorial)” by Jen-Yu Tsai and HsunJen Hsu
“Guildma: timers sent from hell” by Adolf Streda and Luigi Camastra
“Unwanted world – from chaos to rules” by Bohumir Fajt

December 2019

Botconf
Bordeaux, France, December 3-6

“Notes From the Underground: Financial Operations of the Geost Botnet” by Anna Shirokova
“YARA improvements” by Dominika Regeciova and Marek Milkovic

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