Ahmed Sallam

Current

• Chief Software Architect, Director of R&D, AVERT Labs at McAfee

Past

• Senior Software Security Architect at Nokia Corporation
• Principal Software Engineer at Symantec
• Software Developer/ Windows Chief Designer at Panasas

• Director of Software/ Chief Software Architect at Cognicity (Acquired by Digimarc)
• Head, Operating Systems and Software Protection Division at Sakhr Software
• Operating System Architect at Sakhr Software
• Senior Software Engineer at Standard Data
• Software Engineer at Leena Software

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Education

• Alexandria University

Recommended

8 people have recommended Ahmed

Connections

465 connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

• My Blog

Ahmed Sallam’s Summary

• Computer malware research expert with specialties in anti-Rootkits, anti-spyware, as well as malware behavioral analysis, detection and prevention.
• Software Applications Security expert with specialties in host based intrusion prevention systems, and behavioral based security systems.
• Kernel Mode and Device Drivers Software Engineer with specialties in Windows File System Drivers, Windows Filter Device Drivers, Windows NDIS Drivers, Windows Audio Drivers, Windows Display Drivers, and Windows Keyboard Drivers.
• Software Inventor with over fifteen pending software security patent applications.
• Software Debugging Expert with unique skills in code breaking and reverse engineering using various types of binary analyzers and runtime debuggers.
• Chief Software Architect with excellent record of architecting, designing and producing world class software applications that are deployed on over 100 million computer systems (if we count the software products developed for Symantec, McAfee, Netscape,…)
• Software Director with very success record in managing various teams and groups in various countries including: India, Egypt, Bulgaria, United States (West Coast, Midwest, East Coast), Belgium, and England.
• Software Business Development and Product management with specialties in technology assessment, partnerships, and acquisitions.

Ahmed Sallam’s Experience

• Chief Software Architect, Director of R&D, AVERT Labs

  McAfee

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; mfe; Computer & Network Security industry)

  March 2006 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  Chief Architect of AVERT Labs Engineering. Overseeing the research and development of new technologies in several spaces like rootkits and stealth attacks, behavioral analyses systems, virtualization systems, firmware based security, etc.

• Senior Software Security Architect

  Nokia Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; nok; Computer & Network Security industry)

  2004 — 2006 (2 years)

  Overseeing the research and development of the Nokia SSL-VPN product which spans different computer networking and security areas like: End Point Security, network packets filtering, firewalls, and web browser security.

• Principal Software Engineer

  Symantec

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SYMC; Computer & Network Security industry)

  June 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 4 months)

  Overseeing the research and development of advanced security solutions in the behavioral analysis space as well as applications self and assets protection.

• Software Developer/ Windows Chief Designer

  Panasas

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 2001 — May 2003 (1 year 8 months)

• Director of Software/ Chief Software Architect

  Cognicity (Acquired by Digimarc)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  September 1999 — September 2001 (2 years 1 month)

• Head, Operating Systems and Software Protection Division

  Sakhr Software

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1996 — March 1999 (3 years 3 months)

• Operating System Architect

  Sakhr Software

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 1993 — December 1995 (2 years 10 months)

• Senior Software Engineer

  Standard Data

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1992 — March 1993 (7 months)

• Software Engineer

  Leena Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1990 — September 1992 (2 years 4 months)

Ahmed Sallam’s Education

• Alexandria University

  Bachelors, Computer Science and Automatic Control, 1987 — 1992

Additional Information

Ahmed Sallam’s Websites:

• My Blog

Ahmed Sallam’s Interests:

Computer security, reverse engineering, distributed computing, file systems, software instrumentation, kernel internals and development.

Ahmed Sallam’s Groups:

ACM, Usenix

•    SoftwareEngineering
•    IT SECURITY EXPERT
•    USENIX Association
•    Angel Investor Group
•    Startup Specialists
•    Virus Bulletin Conference Speakers
•    McAfee Professionals
•    McAfee - NAI Alumni Group

Ahmed Sallam’s Honors:

• Sole inventor of over fifteen pending software patents in the areas of Systems Virtualization, Software Security, Intrusion Prevention Systems, distributed security systems, Application Firewall Systems, Patching Windows systems, application sandboxing, and Multimedia Capturing technologies. (2000-2007)
• Sindbad Netscape Communicator: Best of Show, COMDEX, Cairo Egypt (July 1998); Best Arabic Internet Solution, Internet World Middle East, U.A.E, (1998); Award of Excellence, Best Arabic Internet Technology, PC Magazine (1997)
• Sindbad Netscape Navigator: Best Arabic Internet Browser, King Abdel Aziz Institute of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (July 1997); Editors Choice, PC Magazine Middle & Near East Edition (June 1997); Editors Choice, PC Magazine Arabic Edition (May 1997); Best Arabic Internet Tool, Byte Magazine Arabic Edition (Nov 1996)
• Sakhr Arabic Windows: Best Arabic Windows Environment, King Abdel Aziz Institute for Science and technology, Saudi Arabia (Dec 1993)

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