Oleg Kolesnikov

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Oleg Kolesnikov is a computer security specialist and writer. He is the author of a book in computer security called "Building Linux VPNs." The book is a popular and widely regarded work for open source VPNs. The book has been translated into French, Russian, and Spanish. The review of the book by slashdot is available here.

[edit] Education

Kolesnikov has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and a Masters degree in Information Security from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been working in the areas of networking and security, most recently at ISS X-Force, IBM Research, and Berkeley Lab.

[edit] Other Published Work

Among the academic publications authored or co-authored by Oleg Kolesnikov are:

• Advanced Polymorphic Worms: Evading IDS by Blending in with Normal Traffic (GT Research Report).
• Polymorphic Blending Attacks (USENIX Security Conference).
• Anomaly Detection using Call Stack Information (IEEE Security and Privacy Conference).
• Using Safe Areas of Computation for the Security of Online Banking (SSGRR Conference).

[edit] External links

• More information about Oleg Kolesnikov on his website
• Oleg Kolesnikov's website at Georgia Tech