iSEC Partners Announces Black Hat Roster
Black Hat 2009 Features Five New iSEC Presentations and Tools.
San Francisco, CA, July 15, 2009 --(PR.com)-- iSEC Partners, a leading application and mobile security consulting firm, today announced its roster for Black Hat USA 2009, the world’s premier technical security conference. The 2009 conference will feature five original presentations by seven iSEC speakers covering four tracks. The following iSEC researchers have been invited to present their new research and tools:
Jesse Burns - Exploratory Android Surgery
Zane Lackey - Attacking SMS
Alex Stamos/Andrew Becherer/Nathan Wilcox - Cloud Computing Security
Rachel Engel - Gizmo: Lightweight WebApp Proxy
Riley Hassell - Exploiting Rich Content
In the last five years, iSEC has had twenty unique presentations from thirty
speakers at the conference, the most speaking invitations by a single company in Black Hat history.
“Black Hat provides the best content of all the security conferences. It is a privilege to have so many of our researchers on the cutting edge of such a wide array of security subjects,” said Himanshu Dwivedi, co-founder of iSEC Partners.
“Today, we have an array of new attack surfaces, from mobile to the cloud,” said Joel Wallenstrom, CEO of iSEC Partners. “However, we have the rare ability to protect these platforms before they become full-blown battlegrounds. We feel that our commitment to research, technical presentations and responsible disclosure give developers information needed to build stronger and more resilient products on these new platforms.”
Black Hat USA will occur July 25-30, 2009 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Black Hat USA 2009 will host over 4,000 digital security experts, bringing together public and private sector security professionals and underground hackers. For more information visit http://www.blackhat.com.
About iSEC Partners
iSEC Partners (iSEC) is a full-service security consulting firm that specializes in mobile and application security. iSEC provides penetration testing, secure systems development, security education and software design verification. iSEC Partners' security assessments leverage extensive knowledge of current security vulnerabilities, penetration techniques and software development best practices to enable customers to secure their applications against ever-present threats on the Internet. Primary emphasis is placed upon helping software developers build safe, reliable code. Areas of research interest include application attack and defense, web applications/services, mobile applications, operating system security, privacy, VoIP, storage network security and malicious application analysis. iSEC Partners is headquartered in San Francisco, California. More information is available at http://www.isecpartners.com.
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Jesse Burns - Exploratory Android Surgery
Zane Lackey - Attacking SMS
Alex Stamos/Andrew Becherer/Nathan Wilcox - Cloud Computing Security
Rachel Engel - Gizmo: Lightweight WebApp Proxy
Riley Hassell - Exploiting Rich Content
In the last five years, iSEC has had twenty unique presentations from thirty
speakers at the conference, the most speaking invitations by a single company in Black Hat history.
“Black Hat provides the best content of all the security conferences. It is a privilege to have so many of our researchers on the cutting edge of such a wide array of security subjects,” said Himanshu Dwivedi, co-founder of iSEC Partners.
“Today, we have an array of new attack surfaces, from mobile to the cloud,” said Joel Wallenstrom, CEO of iSEC Partners. “However, we have the rare ability to protect these platforms before they become full-blown battlegrounds. We feel that our commitment to research, technical presentations and responsible disclosure give developers information needed to build stronger and more resilient products on these new platforms.”
Black Hat USA will occur July 25-30, 2009 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Black Hat USA 2009 will host over 4,000 digital security experts, bringing together public and private sector security professionals and underground hackers. For more information visit http://www.blackhat.com.
About iSEC Partners
iSEC Partners (iSEC) is a full-service security consulting firm that specializes in mobile and application security. iSEC provides penetration testing, secure systems development, security education and software design verification. iSEC Partners' security assessments leverage extensive knowledge of current security vulnerabilities, penetration techniques and software development best practices to enable customers to secure their applications against ever-present threats on the Internet. Primary emphasis is placed upon helping software developers build safe, reliable code. Areas of research interest include application attack and defense, web applications/services, mobile applications, operating system security, privacy, VoIP, storage network security and malicious application analysis. iSEC Partners is headquartered in San Francisco, California. More information is available at http://www.isecpartners.com.
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