Ahmed Sallam

Current

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

Past

• Avert Spyware Research Architect at McAfee
• 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

10 people have recommended Ahmed

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

• My Blog

Ahmed Sallam’s Summary

• A world class expert and leader in various fields of computer systems security
• Recognized as a world class expert in the battle against Rootkits and key loggers
• Recognized as an expert in virtualization systems security, my latest work is the design of VMware VMSafe
• Software Applications Security expert with specialties in host based intrusion prevention systems, applications sand- boxing, applications fire-walling and stateful behavior analysis systems
• Computer systems security visionary with multiple breakthroughs and inventions in the field
• Granted the United States Green Card as an Individual with Extraordinary Abilities in Computer Systems Security and Digital Rights Management
• 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 twenty 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 (counting software products developed for Symantec, McAfee, and Netscape)
• Software Director with a successful record in managing various teams and groups in various countries including: India, Egypt, Bulgaria, United States (West Coast, Midwest, East Coast), Belgium, and England.

Ahmed Sallam’s Specialties:

Computer systems security, proactive behavioral protection, anti-rootkits, systems virtualization, file systems, operating systems development, code breaking, Windows internals, technology assessment, partnerships, mergers, due diligence 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 (3 years 5 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.

• Avert Spyware Research Architect

  McAfee

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

  February 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 6 months)

  Focusing on Rootkits and Spyware detection and repair methods. Various research around systems and applications virtualization. Desigin and development of the McAfee Rootkit Detective tool.

• 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

•    RSA Conference
•    The Official IEEE Group
•    SoftwareEngineering
•    Nokia Alumni (past and present)
•    The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group
•    Symantec Alumni Group
•    Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
•    Black Hat
•    Nokia Alumni
•    OPEN Silicon Valley
•    IT SECURITY EXPERT
•    Computer Security and Forensics
•    USENIX Association
•    SAGE: The USENIX SIG for Sysadmins
•    Angel Investor Group
•    Startup Specialists
•    Virus Bulletin Conference Speakers
•    Malware/Spyware/Security-Researchers/Analysts
•    Cloud Computing
•    File System Engineers
•    Reverse Engineering and Malware Research
•    Nokia Alumni USA
•    McAfee Professionals
•    Symantec Corporation
•    Mobile start-ups - 5000+ members and growing!
•    McAfee - NAI Alumni Group
•    Panasas Alumni Association
•    Cloud Security Alliance

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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