Quote Originally Posted by Niclo Iste View Post

I'll side with experience.
NSS Labs' "2013 Browser Security Comparative Analysis: Socially Engineered Malware" was authored by:
  • Randy Abrams - Research Director Randy Abrams brings a wealth of experience in malware and virus research to the NSS Labs team. Previously, he was the Director of Technical Education for six years at ESET, a global antivirus company, and from 1993 to 2005, worked at Microsoft where he developed and managed the processes to prevent their software from being released with malware.

    Abrams has presented at dozens of international security conferences, is often quoted in articles for several security publications, and has served on the board of directors for the Association of Antivirus Asia Researchers since 2000.

  • Orlando Barrera II - Orlando Barrera II leads the Malware and Phishing Research team. Previously, he worked in communications with the United States Army Signal Corps, 35th Signal Brigade, stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C. While completing his Bachelor of Science degree, he worked in the Computer Science department at Texas State University.

    He also previously worked for SecTheory as a code monkey, software developer, and security researcher. Barrera has presented at B-Sides LV, RSS, LASCON, HouSecCon, AHA and is an active member in the local OWASP chapter. His vulnerabilities and exploits published include: CVE-2009-3371, CVE-2010-0160, and CVE-2010-4109.

  • Jayendra Pathak - Jayendra Pathak leads the Live Testing team and brings a wealth of expertise in malware, phishing and exploit analysis. Pathak and team maintain a comprehensive database of threats prevalent in the wild and built an automated live testing infrastructure that runs with minimal supervision. Along with NSS Labs Researcher Mohamed Saher, he also built an exploit-hunting tool -- BaitNET -- which gathers real-time intelligence on these exploits.

    Prior to NSS Labs, he was a research assistant at University of Houston where he was pursuing his M.S degree. A native of Nepal, Pathak worked as a computer engineer for the Government of Nepal for 4 years prior to coming to United States.

    A true researcher, Pathak's hobby is to scan the internet for the threats and try to correlate how those threats affect users. He has a B.E. in computer engineering from Nepal Engineering College and a M.S. in Management Information System from University of Houston.