NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

Sinan Eren, VP and GM of Avast, is a cybersecurity expert, who has extensive knowledge in both the engineering and business aspects of security. . As a highly respected security consultant, Sinan spent 10 years reverse engineering/breaking software for global corporations and the US government, gaining expertise in the failings of the enterprise software solutions that many businesses rely on. These are the same applications that are now available on mobile devices.

Sinan was co-founder, CEO and chief product officer of Remotium, Inc., which Avast acquired in 2015. At Remotium, he led the development of Remotium’s innovative virtual mobile platform, which was a pioneer in the world of mobile workspaces. Prior to Remotium, he was he lead research at Immunity, Inc., a leader in security assessment and penetration testing, where he used his expertise in identifying new software vulnerabilities to develop state-of-the-art exploitation techniques.

In 2004, Sinan published The Shellcoder’s Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes. Based on his deep experience as a security researcher, the book examines how to detect holes in security, how hackers exploit them, and how to close these security holes so they never occur again.