Wed. April 2, 2008: Ophir Rachman on Virtualization and Security
The Center for Research on Computation and Society continues its
weekly lunch seminar:
CRCS Privacy and Security Lunch Seminar
Date: Wednesday, 2 April 2008
Time: 12:00pm-1:30 pm
Place: Maxwell Dworkin 119
Topic: Virtualization and Security
Speaker: Ophir Rachman, VMware, Inc.
Ophir will describe various directions where security and virtualization may
meet currently or in the near future (for good and for bad) and will provide
overview of opportunities and challenges.
Ophir Rachman is an R&D director for security products at VMware and is
responsible for mapping the virtualization technology into the security
space. Ophir finished his Ph.D. studies in the Technion, Israel, focusing on
distributed computing and specifically snapshot algorithms in shared memory
distributed environments. Ophir was one of the pioneers in the host based
intrusion prevention space and in 1998 founded a startup focusing on system
call interception and api’s hooking targeting monitoring and deflecting
security threats from within the host operating system. This startup (later
known as Entercept) was acquired by McAfee in 2003 and the basic technology
is embedded today in McAfee’s host protection product line.