Education
Muttik holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics and mathematics from the Moscow State University.
Muttik holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics and mathematics from the Moscow State University.
Doctor Igor Muttik is a Senior Principal Research Architect with McAfee which is part of Intel Corporation since 2011. He started researching computer malware in 1980s when anti-virus industry was in its infancy. Since 1998 Muttik was running McAfee’s anti-malware research in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and switched to his architectural role in 2002.
In 2008 he was one of the co-founders of AMTSO (Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization) and was on the Board of AMTSO for 3 years.
The taggant system and CMX are both part of AMSS (Anti-Malware Support Service). He is a regular speaker at major international security conferences like Black Hat Briefings, Republic of South Africa Conference, DEF CON, Virus Bulletin, EICAR. Muttik is a visiting professor at the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway University London.
He is heading McAfee"s work for the security research of mobile devices funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council: MobSec, ACID and AppGuarden projects. His current work is focused on the architecture of security solutions for smart devices and on hardware-assisted security technologies.
In May 2009 Muttik"s blog about the risks associated with the use of software packers caused criticism by Rob Rosenberger.
Despite this incident Muttik is working closely today with several software companies developing software packers (like Themida) on the taggant system.
He is a member of CARO (Computer Antivirus Research Organization) since 1994, lives in the United Kingdom and worked as a virus researcher for Doctor Solomon’s Software.