The Art of Evading Antivirus

There are estimates that security analysts, to include penetration testers, are approximately 5 years behind malicious actors. Anti-virus by itself isn’t enough to stop a malicious individual from gaining access to your servers or computers anymore. In fact many of them have devised ways to evade anti-viruses. We as security professionals should understand how these individuals are doing this, and what tools are available for us to replicate these attacks. Tools such as veil-framework assist us with this. This talk will go over this tool, and how malicious individuals evade anti-viruses with ease.

Quentin Rhoads-Herrera is a security analyst for State Farm. In this position he is responsible for risk analysis and application security assessments. He is accountable for ensuring risks are identified and properly mitigated throughout the organization.

He previously served as the Information Security Director for Clearview Energy and Solarview. In this position he oversaw all information security activities. These included development of company-wide cyber security standards, development of layered defense approaches and the hardening and defense of all company systems.

Mr. Rhoads-Herrera has worked in the Information Security space for a total of seven years serving in roles ranging from Security Consultant to Information Security Director.