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Senior Distinguished Researcher Makoto Iwamura
  • Senior Distinguished Researcher

    Makoto Iwamura

  • NTT Social Informatics Laboratories

Research on Vulnerability Finding, Attack Impact Assessment, and Remediation Methods

We aim to develop technologies that automate the process of finding and fixing vulnerabilities, as well as technologies that mitigate the damage caused by cyber-attacks.

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Awards

  • Fellow of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), 2021.

  • Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research (SCAT) 2020 chairman award, 2020.
  • CSS2020 best paper award (coauthor), 2020.
  • CSEC best research award (coauthor), 2019.
  • CSS2019 best paper award (coauthor), 2019.
  • JIP specially selected paper (coauthor), 2018.
  • CSS2017 best paper award (coauthor), 2017.
  • ICSS2015 research award from ICSS Committee, IEICE Information and Systems Society (coauthor), 2015.
  • ICSS2012 research award from ICSS Committee, IEICE Information and Systems Society (coauthor), 2012.
  • MWS2012 best paper award (coauthor), 2012.
  • IA2010 student award from Technical Committee on Internet Architecture, IEICE Communication Society, 2010.
  • IA2008 research award from Technical Committee on Internet Architecture, IEICE Communication Society (coauthor), 2008.
  • FIT2004 young researcher award from IPSJ/IEICE System Society, 2004.

Academic Activities

  • Member of Science Council of Japan (2017-)
  • Member of SECCON Executive Committee (2012-2020)
  • AsiaJCIS TPC member (2012-2018)
  • MWS TPC member (2013-2015), MWS TPC chair (2013)

Publications

Books

  • Japanese translation of "Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters", O'Reilly Japan, 2015.
  • Japanese translation of "Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide", O'Reilly Japan, 2012.
  • "Analyzing Malware: Fighting against infection incidents with free tools", O'Reilly Japan, 2010.

Papers

  • Toshinori Usui, Yuto Otsuki, Tomonori Ikuse, Yuhei Kawakoya, Makoto Iwamura, Jun Miyoshi, Kanta Matsuura, "Automatic Reverse Engineering of Script Engine Binaries for Building Script API Tracers", ACM DTRAP 2021.
  • Yuto Otsuki, Yuhei Kawakoya, Makoto Iwamura, Jun Miyoshi, Jacob Faires, Terrence Lillard, "Toward the Analysis of Distributed Code Injection in Post-mortem Forensics", IWSEC 2019.
  • Toshinori Usui, Yuto Otsuki, Yuhei Kawakoya, Makoto Iwamura, Jun Miyoshi, Kanta Matsuura, "My Script Engines Know What You Did in The Dark: Enhancing Engines into Script API Tracer", ACSAC 2019.
  • Yuma Kurogome, Yuto Otsuki, Yuhei Kawakoya, Makoto Iwamura, Syogo Hayashi, Tatsuya Mori, Koushik Sen, "EIGER: Automated IOC Generation for Accurate and Interpretable Endpoint Malware Detection", ACSAC 2019.
  • Makoto Iwamura, "The Mystery of WannaCry Mutants: Revealing Mechanism of Infoleak Caused by the Mutation", CODE BLUE 2018, Tokyo.
  • Yuhei Kawakoya, Eitaro Shioji, Yuto Otsuki, Makoto Iwamura, Takeshi Yada, "Stealth Loader: Trace-free Program Loading for API Obfuscation", The 20th International Symposium on Research on Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2017).

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