Quick Heal Technologies hosted Asia’s Premier Information Security Conference – Association of Anti-Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR 2008) for the first time in India.

AVAR 2008 is an exclusive three day occasion presenting the newest technologies in Information Security and Anti – Malware Industry. in reality, this is the largest Asia – Pacific Conference for anti – malware technologies.  

Present on the occasion were Mr. Kailash Katkar - Founder & CEO, Quick Heal Technologies, Mr. Sanjay Katkar – Chief Technology Officer, Quick Heal Technologies & Mr. Seiji Murakami – Chairman AVAR 2008; along with Key Security Expert Speakers from all over the World. Security companies from all over the world participated in the event. There were paper presentations from Microsoft, Symantec, Trend Micro, Quick Heal Technologies, Webroot, F-Secure, AVG, ESET and K7 Computing.  

Quick Heal Technologies has been awarded to host AVAR 2008 conference in India. More than last 10 years of history AVAR conference made a reputation in the IT security industry as the premier event on anti-virus technologies and malware threats. Series of technical and corporate presentations along with an accompanying exhibition will ensure that the conference has a broad appeal across the IT security arena.

AVAR conference has a status of having technical papers on most recent topics in computer security. These technical papers are presented by the very researchers who put the security technologies into practice in actuality.

Keynote presentations include “Fighting International Organized Online Crime” by Mr. Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer, F-Secure Corporation, Finland. Mr. Mikko Hypponen known for the memorable keynotes and presentations he has delivered in international conferences such Black Hat, RSA and InfoSec Europe. He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web in 2007 by the PC World magazine.

Other interesting presentations include: "Cyber Threats in 2018" by Eugene Kaspersky, Founder and CEO, Kaspersky Labs., “Search Engines – How Far are they Trustworthy?” by Alice Decker, Threat Researcher, Trend Micro., “WOW64 Woes for Anti-Virus Products” by  Abhijit Kulkarni, Program Manager Development & Prakash Jagdale, Sr. Software Architect, Quick Heal Technologies.

The Conference will end with a Panel Discussion on Computing - Security and Privacy Concerns. The board will be chaired by David Perry of Trend Micro. The panel members comprise Eugene Kaspersky from Kaspersky Labs, Sanjay Katkar of Quick Heal Technologies, Mikko Hypponen from F-Secure, Randy Abrams from ESET and Vincent Weafer of Symantec.

Attendees comprised Information Security Professionals and consultants, Network and System administrators, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware Researchers, Security Software Developers and Testers, IT Heads of Large Banks and Financial Institutes, Information Security Students, faculties and teachers, Cyber Crime Prevention cells and people form Intelligence department as well as Cyber Security officials from military and para-military departments.