Next Generation of Automated Malware Analysis and Detection In the last ten years, malicious software – malware – has become increasingly sophisticated, both in terms of how it is used and what it can do. This rapid evolution of malware is essentially a cyber “arms race” run by organizations with geopolitical agendas and profit motives. The resulting losses for victims have run to billions of dollars. The global move to digitize personal and sensitive information as well as to computerize and interconnect critical infrastructure has far outpaced the capabilities of the security measures that have been put into place. As a result, cyber criminals can act with near impunity as they break into networks to steal data and hijack resources. It is difficult to stop their criminal malware and nearly impossible to track them down after an attack has been perpetrated. What we see is that today’s network defenses are aggressively evaded by malware that is even moderately advanced. Why is t