1. NEZER JACOB ZAIDENBERG
WORK ADDRESS
Shenkar college of engineering and design
Department of software engineering
12 Anna Frank st
Ramat Gan, Israel
University of Jyväkylä
Department of mathematical information technology
P.O. Box 35 (Agora)
FIN-40014 Finland
PERSONAL ADDRESS
30 haodem st.
Hod Hasharon
45350, Israel
http://www.scipio.org
Finland: +358-(400)-805-4939 | Israel: +972 (54) 553-1415 | US: +(1) 720-408-3909
AREAS OF RESEARCH
CYBER : trusted computing, systems, privacy
OPERATING SYSTEMS : Virtualization, hypervisors, high speed interconnects
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING : Systems, No-SQL, networks
EDUCATION
DOCENT University of Jyväkylä December 2013
MATHEMATICAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
“VIRTUALIZATION AND PROTECTIONOF DIGITAL CONTENT”
Ph.D University of Jyväkylä June 2012
MATHEMATICAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Thesis under supervision of Prof. Amir Averbuch and Prof Pekka Neittaanmäki
Dissertation topic: “Developing advanced systems with aspects of virtualization”
MBA Tel Aviv University June 2007
SPECIALIZING IN FINANCE
M.SC Tel Aviv University May 2002
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Thesis under supervision of Prof. Amir Averbuch
Thesis topic “sFDPC and the Internet real time streaming packet cascading”
B.SC Tel Aviv University September 1999
Computer science & statistics and operations research
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Tel Aviv university – researcher STRIMM consortium 2003-2005
Tel Aviv university – researcher EGEE (Isragrid) 2008-2010
University of Jyväskylä – Post doc researcher 2012
University of Jyväskylä – Post doc researcher. Leader of Truly protect 2012-2014
Shenkar college of engineering and design – software engineering faculty member 2014-PRESENT
INDUSTRIAL APPOINTMENTS
FULL TIME POSITIONS
Axanna - VP R&D 2007-2008
o Managed 3M$ per annum budget
Uterasoft – Founder and CTO 2005-2007
o Led two roudns of financing
Corigin – Project manager and chief software architect 2002-2005
o Led two flagship projects
vTRAILS – Founder, President and CTO 1999-2002
o Led 3 rounds of financing
o Managed team of 40
ECI telecom – System administrator, DBA 1998-1999
2. CONSULTANT
Videocells (Herzelia, Israel); redesigned and led the company through product and infrastructure
transformations
Friendly Technologies (Ramat Gan, Israel) Faced product design and performance challenges.
Infowrap/Blusky (Israel/Italy) Supervised technology transfer to Italian buyer.
Expay-Global (Israel/Bulgaria) Solution infrastructure and R&D focus, security, PCI authorization.
NDS/Cisco (Jerusalem, Israel); provided training on Mac architecture internals; generated
repeated business for the implementation of three products. Designed PS3 port of PC-Show
product.
SintecMedia (Jerusalem, Israel); Technology advisor for the CTO; Software architecture for STB.
Data mining.
Kardan VC (Tel Aviv, Israel); headed technology due-diligence for investment.
EDF Energy (Plymouth, UK); UK’s #1 utility provider. Transfer from mainframe to open systems.
MCE-systems User space driver development
Diligent/IBM Fibrechannel driver development under linux
Perion Mac (OSX) internals
Finjan Windows to Solaris porting
Axxana research on brocade switches
RESEARCH GRANTS AND PERSONAL AWARDS
1. 2003-5 STRIMM consurtium grant for peer-2-peer streaming (based on masters thesis) w/ Prof
Amir Averbuch (TAU)
2. 20012-14 TEKES TUTLI grant for TRULY-PROTECT 1.25M€
3. Ellen and arrturi Nyyssosen foundation grant (18,600€)
4. TrulyProtect business plan won technology award CCSU 2013
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ACTIVITIES
IEEE (SINCE 2011)
a. PROCTOR AND “COACH” OF SCHOOL TEAM FOR IEEEXTREME 2014 COMPETITION
SCS (SINCE 2011)
FINNISH MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY – SINCE 2012
ACADEMIC COURSES
SECURE SYSTEM DESIGN (M.SC LEVEL) – JYU 2013-14
OPERATING SYSTEM SECURITY 1 (DOMAINS MANAGEMENT- M.SC LEVEL) - JYU 2013-2014
OPERATING SYSTEM SECURITY 2 (TRUSTED COMPUTING - M.SC LEVEL) – JYU 2011-12, 2013-2014 – 2
TIMES (ONCE AS “TRUSTED COMPUTING”)
MASTER DEGREE - CYBER WORKSHOP (M.SC LEVEL) – MTA 2014-2015
BACHELOR DEGREE - LINUX WORKSHOP MTA 2010-2011, 2009-2010 TAU 2009-2010 – TOTAL 3 TIMES
MASTER SEMINAR (M.SC LEVEL) – JYU 2013-2014
FIBRECHANNEL (M.SC LEVEL) – JYU 2011-2012
DATABASES – SHNKAR 2012-2013
SECURE PROGRAMMING – SHENKAR 2014-2015
CYBER SEMINAR - SHENKAR 2014-2015
CYBER SYSTEMS - SHENKAR 2014-2015
SYSTEM PROGRAMMING UNIX MTA (2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015) SHENKAR (2013-2014, 2014-
2015) TOTAL 6 TIMES
SECURE PROGRAMMING - SEMINAR HAKIBUTZIM (2009-2010)
ADVANCED TOPICS IN OPERATING SYSTEMS (M.SC / B.SC) TAU (2009-2010, 2010-2011) MTA (2009-
2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014) TOTAL 7 TIMES
REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS – RUPPIN (2009-2010)
OPERATING SYSTEMS – MTA (2009-2010, 2010-2011) TAU (2009-2010, 2010-2011) RUPPIN (2009-
2010), SEMINAR HAKIBUTZIM (2009-2010) – TOTAL 10 TIMES
CALCULUS 1 – MTA (2008-2009)
COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ASSEMBLER (OPEN UNIVERSITY 1998-1999)
4. GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISION AND CO-SUPERVISION
DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Present
Limor Gavish @ University of jyväskylä
Michael Kiperberg @ University of jyväskylä (to graduate 2015)
Amit Resh @ University of jyväskylä
Amir Hussain Rajnama @ University of jyväskylä
Tiina Kovanen @ University of jyväskylä
MASTER STUDENTS
Present
Eviatar Khen @ Tel Aviv University (w/ Prof. Amir Averbuch)
Alexei Sragovitch @ Tel Aviv Jaffa-academic college (w/ Dr. Carmi Merimovitch)
Asaf Algawi @ Tel Aviv Jaffa-academic college (w/ Dr. Carmi Merimovitch)
Evyatar Tamir @ Tel Aviv Jaffa-academic college (w/ Dr. Carmi Merimovitch)
Avihu Efrat @ University of jyväskylä
Tomer Shani @ University of jyväskylä
David Bauminger @ University of jyväskylä
M.Sc students thesis under my supervision / co supervision
Past
Limor Gavish – Thesis submitted @ Tel Aviv university (2012 w/ Prof. Amir Averbuch)
Thesis: http://www.scipio.org/students/LimorGavish/book.pdf
Michael Kiperberg – Thesis submitted @ Tel Aviv University (2012, Cum laude w/ Prof. Amir Averbuch)
Thesis: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/thesis/thesis/Kiperberg.Michael-MSc.thesis.pdf
Tomer Margalit – Thesis submitted @ Tel Aviv University (2013 w/ Prof. Amir Averbuch)
Thesis: http://www.scipio.org/students/TomerMargalit/amirror3.pdf
Tamir Erez – Thesis submitted @ Tel Aviv Jaffa-academic collage (2013 w/ Dr. Carmi Merimovich)
Thesis: http://www.scipio.org/students/TamirErez/G2GMsc.pdf
Amit Resh @ University of jyväskylä (2013)
Asaf David @ Tel Aviv Jaffa-academic college (2014 w/ Dr. Carmi Merimovich)
Yuval Meir @ Tel Aviv University (2014 w/ Prof. Amir Averbuch)
PUBLICATIONS
5. 5 most important publications
1. "Truly Protect: An Efficient VM-Based Software Protection”
2. “An Efficient VM-Based Software Protection”
3. “A low bitrate approach to replication of block devices and virtual machines”
4. “LgDb 2.0: A code coverage and profiler architecture for the Linux kernel”
5. Business plan:Truly protect - winner of CCSU 2013 technology award
Book chapters
1. Trusted computing. to appear at CYBER SECURITY ANALYTICS Vol. 3 Cybersecurity
technologies (w/ Pekka Neittaanmäki)
2. Game console hacks to appear at CYBER SECURITY ANALYTICS Vol. 3 Cybersecurity
technologies
3. Timing and side channel attacks to appear at CYBER SECURITY ANALYTICS Vol. 3
Cybersecurity technologies (w/ Amit Resh)
4. Trusted computing Projects at JYU to appear at CYBER SECURITY ANALYTICS Vol. 3
Cybersecurity technologies (TrulyProtect w/ Michael Kiperberg, Amit Resh, Pekka Neittaanmäki.
TrulyTrusted w/ Tiina Kovanen, Evyatar Tamir and Pekka Neittaanmäki)
Journal papers
Trusted computing publication
1. Averbuch A., Kiperberg M., Zaidenberg N. "Truly Protect : An Efficient VM-Based Software
Protection” IEEE System journal September 2013
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6553406
2. M Kiperberg M. and Zaidenberg N. “Efficient Remote Authentication” to appear in Journal of
information warfare October 2013
Peer-2-peer streaming
1. Averbuch, A., Roditi, Y., & Zaidenberg, N. (2013). PPPC — peer-2-peer streaming and algorithm
for creating spanning trees for peer-2-peer networks. In S. Repin, T. Tiihonen, & T. Tuovinen
(Eds.), Numerical Methods for Differential Equations, Optimization, and Technological Problems.
Dedicated to Professor P. Neittaanmäki on His 60th Birthday (pp. 363-377). Computational
Methods in Applied Sciences (27). Berlin: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5288-7_20
Trusted computing publication
1. A. Averbuch, M. Kiperberg, N. Zaidenberg (2011) "An Efficient VM-Based Software
Protection” IEEE NSS 2011 http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~kiperber/truly.pdf
2. A. Resh & N. Zaidenberg (2013) "Can keys be hidden inside the CPU on modern Windows
host” ECIW 2013 pages 231-235
3. N. Zaidenberg & A. David (2013) Truly protect video delivery ECIW 2013 pages 405-407
4. M. Kiperberg & N. Zaidenberg (2013) "Efficient Remote Authentication" ECIW 2013 pages
144-148
5. E. Tamir, N. Zaidenberg & P Neittaanmäki (2014) “TrulyTrusted Operating System
Environment” to appear ICCSM 2014
6. A. Algawi, P. Neittaanmaki, N. Zaidenberg & T Parisinos (2014) “In kernel implementation of
RSA routines” to appear ICCSM 2014
7. A. David & N. Zaidenberg (2014) “Maintaining streaming video DRM” to appear ICCSM 2014
Operating systems improvements
6. 1. Averbuch A., T. Margalit, N. Zaidenberg N. & Khen E. (2011) "A low bitrate approach to
replication of block devices and virtual machines" IEEE NAS 2011
"http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/nas/2011/4509/00/4509a180-abs.html"
2. Khen E., Zaidenberg N. & Averbuch A. (2011) Using virtualization for online kernel profiling,
code coverage and instrumentation SPECTS 2011
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5984854&tag=1
3. Khen E., Zaidenberg N., Averbuch A. & Fermocovich E. (2013) "LgDb 2.0: A code coverage
and profiler architecture for the Linux kernel" SPECTS 13
4. Erez T. & Zaidenberg N. (2013) "Grid2Go – A web based internet of things grid computing
engine requiring only a browser. ICI 2013
Systems
1. Averbuch, A., Roditi, Y., & Zaidenberg, N. (2011). An algorithm for creating a spanning graph
for peer-2-peer internet broadcast. In S. Repin, T. Tiihonen, & T. Tuovinen (Eds.), Proceedings
of CAO2011: ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Analysis and Optimization :
University of Jyväskylä, June 9-11, 2011 (pp. 73-76). Reports of the Department of
Mathematical Information Technology. Series A, Collections (1/2011). [Jyväskylä]: University of
Jyväskylä
2. Zaidenberg N. (2014) HoneyGuard - Opensource VSaaS system
Mathematical genetics (population dynamics) and modeling
1. Zaidenberg N. & Eshel I. (2012) “Zaidenberg’s learning model for the evolution of altruistically
cooperation” ECCOMAS 2012 (4826)
Other Publications
Ph.D dissertation : “Developing advanced systems with aspects of virtualization” Zaidenberg N.
University of Jyvaskyla June 2012
M.Sc thesis : “sFDPC and the Internet real time streaming packet cascading” Zaidenberg N. Tel
Aviv University September 2011
“Truly-Protect: Business plan” K. Choi, I. Legmpelos, T. Palosnick, M. Polo-Guardia, D.
Zaidenberg and N. Zaidenberg. Winner of CCSU 2013 Technology award.
Posters
1. "Asynchronous replication solution for Unix, replicating storage and QEMU and Lguest VMs". Amir
Averbuch, Eviatar Khen, Tomer Margalit and Nezer Zaidenberg SYSTOR 2011
2. "LgDb" Amir Averbuch, Eviatar Khen and Nezer Zaidenberg SYSTOR 2011
3. Truly-Protect: An efficient VM-Based copy protection. Amir Averbuch, Michael Kiperberg and Nezer
Zaidenerg SYSTOR 2012 http://pjd-1.ccs.neu.edu/~pjd/systor12/posters/systor12-poster4.pdf
4. A method for hiding decryption keys in copy protected software Amit Resh and Nezer Zaidenberg
SYSTOR 2013
5. Grid2Go: A Web Based Internet of Things GRID Computing Engine. Tamir Erez and Nezer
Zaidneberg SYSTOR 2013
6. TrulyProtect 2.0 and attacks on TrulyProtect 1.0 Amit Resh, Nezer Zaidenberg, Limor Gavish,
Michael Kiperberg and Eviatar Khen ECIW 2013 http://academic-
conferences.org/eciw/eciw2013/eciw13-proceedings.htm
Patents in the field of trusted computing
1. "Virtual Machine Software Protection" N.Zaidenberg and M. Kiperberg
2. "SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CPU CACHE PINNING OF A COMPUTING DEVICE" N.
7. Zaidenberg M. Kiperberg and A. Resh
3. “Remote Authentication Application” N Zaidenberg M. Kiperberg and A. Resh
Contributions to Linux Kernel
1. In kernel RSA implementation
2. Minor contributions to several components including lguest parallel port driver etc.
