iOS

Hands On Training

Thursday — March 29th, 2012 09:00

Important: Students (who want to do the hands-on exercises) will need a Mac running OS X (Lion preferred). They will need to have Xcode installed and functional, with the ability to run iOS apps in the iPhone simulator. Xcode should be version 4.3, although 4.2 should work fine as well. Approximately 10 gigabytes of available disk space is also required.

This class looks at the unique security problems faced by application developers writing code for today’s mobile platforms. In this first class of the smart phone series, we take a close look at Apple?s iOS platform used by iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch devices. The class presents a clear and practical view of the problems, how they can be attacked, as well as remediation steps against the various attacks. It is heavily hands-on driven to not just describe but demonstrate both the problems and the solutions available.

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.