Xeno Kovah Xeno Kovah leads a team of 5 researchers focusing on low level PC firmware and BIOS security. His specialty area is stealth malware and its ability to hide from security software and force security software to lie and report the system is clean when it is not. To combat such attacks he researches trusted computing systems that can provide much stronger guarantees than normal COTS. He is also the founder and lead contributor to OpenSecurityTraining.info, where he has posted 8 days of material on x86 assembly, architecture, binary formats, and rootkits.