Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:05 AM
Akshay Aggarwal
Note to Fannie Mae: Dealing with Logic Bombs
Today, it was revealed that a departing contractor left Fannie Mae with a parting gift – a Logic Bomb designed to take 4000 of the financial giants servers & their data. Since this news broke, a number of concerned CIOs have requested my team for some guidance on how to deal with logic bombs. So here is a quick lesson on these malicious attacks. Read more…
About Akshay Aggarwal
Akshay Aggarwal is a security strategist and researcher. He is currently a Practice Manager for Microsoft Information Security’s ACE Team where he leads the information security consulting practice for North America. He is responsible for securing Microsoft’s ecosystem by developing a robust security practice, incubating new service lines & helping enterprise customers develop world-class IT security strategies.
Previously as a Senior Security Technologist, Akshay was responsible for conducting architecture design, threat modeling, application security assessments and vulnerability research. He helped Fortune 100 clients evaluate the security of their software products and applications.
He has authored several security research papers and been invited to speak at many forums like the RSA Security Conference and Black Hat briefings at Las Vegas.
Akshay holds a MS in Computer Science from the University of California at Davis. There, at the renowned Computer Security Lab, he conducted research on Internet worms and intrusion detection systems.
