Maksym Schipka is the Senior Architect at MessageLabs. Since joining in 2003, Maksym has been responsible for ever-increasing the superiority of MessageLabs anti-virus heuristics used for tracking and stopping existing threats, while also researching new and future exploits and technologies to protect against them. Maksym has created and is now heading a new dedicated Research & Response team, part of a large R&D department, where the anti-virus and anti-spam research and response is taken to new heights. With a zest for problem solving, Maksym thrives on the emergence of unidentified threats to unravel, and the design and development of new tools which enables MessageLabs to protect its customers better than any other vendor. Maksym's most recent achievements include the LinkFollowing feature within MessageLabs Email Anti-Virus 5.1 service, which protects businesses against positively-identified viral URL links embedded within email messages, zero-day detection of the most prolific exploits like WMF and GIF exploits, the evolution of MessageLabs heuristic virus scanner, Skeptic, for Web Security Services v.2, as well as the design of the next generation heuristic scanners for MessageLabs. Maksym has a number of patents pending. Maksym is a regular presenter at Virus Bulletin, AVAR, and other commercial and academic conferences. He has four years of public speaking experience and has been quoted in leading technology and media publications and broadcast outlets, including The Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC News, PC World and others.