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His areas of expertise include malware deobfuscation, detection, removal and prevention. Bogdan is the author of A History of Malware and Botnets 101. Before joining Bitdefender, he worked at one of Romania's largest and oldest universities as network administrator in charge of SecOps and policies. Find me on: ## Recent Posts [#Enterprise Security](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/topic/enterprise-security?hsLang=en-us) Mar 22, 2018 ## [Small Gains, Big Wins – Security Threats Cause Sleepless Nights for UK CISOs](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/small-gains-big-wins-security-threats-cause-sleepless-nights-for-uk-cisos?hsLang=en-us) Security threats are keeping CISOs awake at night. We have this on good authority: around ... 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