David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP is Research Fellow and Director of Malware Intelligence at ESET LLC , Chief Operations Officer at AVIEN, and on the Board of directors of AMTSO. He is a prolific blogger and author of security-focused conference papers and articles. His books include “Viruses Revealed” (Osborne/McGraw-Hill) and the “AVIEN Malware Defense Guide” (Syngress.) He joined ESET's Research team in January 2008 as Research Author, and was appointed Director of Malware Intelligence in August 2008.