New Anti-Virus Book Hot Off the Presses

I’m excited to announce YAAVB! No doubt you recognize that acronym as “yet another anti-virus book.”

And the book that I am proudly holding in my hands is entitled “AVIEN Malware Defense Guide,” and I contributed a chapter to it.

In its 540 pages we cover the following topics:

1. “Customer Power and AV Wannabes”
2. “Stalkers on Your Desktop”
3. “A Tangled Web” (by yours truly)
4. “Big Bad Botnets”
5. “Creme de la Cybercrime”
6. “Defense-in-depth”
7. “Perilous Outsourcery”
8. “Education in Education”
9. “DIY Malware Analysis”
10. “Antimalware Evaluation and Testing”
11. “AVIEN and AVIEWS: the future”

Here’s the team that worked on this book: David Harley, Ken Bechtel, Michael Blanchard, Henk Diemer, Andrew Lee, Igor Muttik, Bojan Zdrnja, Paul Baccas, Tony Bradley, Ken Dunham, Jim Melnick, Enrique Gonzalez, Judith Harley, Dave Phillips, Paul Schmehl, Robert Vibert, and James Wolfe. I would like to express my sincere thanks to David Harley, who put together this team of professionals and led us through a book-writing exercise. It was fun!

I have not yet read all the chapters, but I know the guys well and expect great contributions from all of them!

The book came out under the umbrella of AVIEN (Anti-Virus Information Exchange Network–www.avien.net). This group was formed around 2001 to exchange information related to malware outbreaks. In recent years, due to the lack of large-scale outbreaks, participants simply share all sorts of security information and enjoy communicating with each other. One of the outcomes is this book.

Finally, the book was published by Syngress, retails for US$59.95 (ISBN-13: 978-1-59749-164-8), and is available from major book stores: http://www.amazon.com/AVIEN-Malware-Defense-Guide-Enterprise/dp/1597491640. So far there are two positive reviews, though both came from the team of authors.

I hope you enjoy the book, and I look forward to reading your valuable comments!