5 minutes with a reverse engineer ー Ivan Kwiatkowski
News about how dangerous attacks from infamous APT actors can be and the complications posed if not stopped always hit major headlines. But stopping these attacks isn’t easy, behind this challenging and complicated work stand real heroes - cybersecurity researchers. We talked to Ivan Kwiatkowski, a senior security researcher at Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team, about his journey as a reverse engineer. How did he get into this profession? What is the most challenging and most inspiring part of his job? What advice would he give to young cybersecurity researchers?
Find the answers to these questions and many others in our in-depth interview with Ivan Kwiatkowski.
To learn even more about interesting investigations on APT groups by Ivan Kwiatkowski, check out his other reports on Securelist: https://kas.pr/h1b5.
0:00 – Intro
0:36 – How did Ivan get into this field?
0:55 – What aspects of cybersecurity does Ivan focus on
1:30 – Challenges in the field
2:05 – Ivan’s most notable discovery
2:34 – What advice would he give to those starting out in cybersecurity
3:02 – What Ivan prefers more: to learn by doing or by watching and reading
3:32 – The must have tools for any reverse engineer
3:53 – Naming malware
4:12 – Cybersecurity movies that won’t make you cringe
4:36 – The protection measure that might seem odd but actually is really useful
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