Faculty DirectoryJibran Ilyas

Adjunct Lecturer
Contact
2145 Sheridan RoadTech
Evanston, IL 60208-3109
Email Jibran Ilyas
Website
Departments
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education
M.S. in MSIT, Business / IT, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
B.A. in Network Security, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Research Interests
My research interests include hunting Memory (RAM) for Cyber Threat Actors to speed up Enterprise Incident Response. The goal of the research is to quickly scan thousands of end points and servers to detect unauthorized activity via behavioral profile of the cyber criminals and provide a timely response to minimize the leak of critical data.Selected Publications
Co-Author of Malware Freakshow (BlackHat Whitepaper)
Co-Author of Trustwave’s Global Security Reports from 2011 to 2013
Lead Researcher on Visa Data Security Alert on Memory Dumper Malware
Researcher on Evolution of POS Malware
Lectures and Presentations
Speaker at Department of Homeland Security “Technical Threat Intelligence Exchange”
2015 Speaker at University of Chicago, Tech Talk “Anatomy of a Data Breach, a view from the Trenches”
2014 Speaker at CAMPIT Enterprise Risk / Security Management
2013 (Malware Risk Assessment) Speaker at HITEC Hospitality Technology Show
2013 (Security Hospitality PII) Speaker at Cyber Secure Pakistan
2013 (Forensics Case File) Presenter at Chase/MasterCard Merchant Seminar (Trustwave Global Security Report)
Co-presented at Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Consortium
2011 (POS Forensic Investigations) Trainer at United States Secret Service (Incident Response and Digital Forensics)
Presented at HITEC World Largest Hospitality Technology Show (Hospitality Attacks and Malware)
Speaker at SecTor and DEF CON 2011 (Malware Freakshow 3)
Speaker at SOURCE Barcelona (BlackHats don’t always win)
Speaker at BlackHat, SecTor and DEF CON 2010 (Malware Freakshow 2)
Speaker at DEF CON 2009 (Malware Freakshow)