Kyoto 2012 FIRST TC

Smartphone Security: Pitfalls to Avoid

FIRST Seminar (Room 1&2)

Tuesday — November 13th, 2012 14:00

Mobile apps have taken off in fabulous numbers in the past few years, and yet in many ways the security community has not kept up with the technical risks these mobile platforms present. In this presentation, we'll discuss and demonstrate many of the most prevalent risks faced by mobile device users today. The problems will be clearly described and demonstrated so that security professionals can better understand -- beyond all the media headlines and hype -- what real world risks we face in the mobile world.

Presenters

  • Ken Van Wyk (KRvW Associates, LLC)

    Ken is a CERT® Certified Computer Security Incident Handler, as well as an internationally recognized information security expert and author of the popular O'Reilly and Associates books, Incident Response and Secure Coding: Principles and Practices, as well as a monthly columnist for Computerworld. Among his numerous professional roles, Ken is a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is a course instructor and consultant to the CERT® Coordination Center.

    Ken has previously held senior information security technologist roles at Tekmark's Technology Risk Management practice, Para-Protect Services, Inc., and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Ken was also the Operations Chief for the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency's DoD-CERT incident response team, as well as a founding employee of the CERT® Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute.

    Ken has previously served as the Chairman and as a member of the Steering Committee for the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), a non-profit professional organization supporting the incident response community. He currently sits on their Steering Committee and Board of Directors. He holds a mechanical engineering degree from Lehigh University and is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, including S3, CSI, ISF, and others FIRST.