 Since 1998 Muttik was running McAfee’s anti-malware research in EMEA and switched to his architectural role in 2002.In 2008 he was one of the co-founders of AMTSO (Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization) and was on the Board of AMTSO for 3 years.Muttik was also a co-founder of Industry Connections Security Group  (ICSG is part of IEEE) - he is the chair of the taggant system working group, vice-chair of the ICSG and CMX (clean file metadata exchange) working groups.