Ian Amit, Director of Security Services for IOActive, to present at SOURCE Boston

In this presentation, Ian will focus on red team engagements and why they are gaining in popularity. By way of background, red teams attack something, while the opposing blue team defends. Traditionally organisations have focused on defense and many have established highly qualified blue teams. In reality, organisations need the yin and yang of both offensive and defensive measures to truly secure their critical assets against today’s evolving threats. Red team exercises provide an invaluable methodology and process for understanding your weak points from an attacker’s point of view.

This session that Ian will present on is geared for anyone charged with protecting real world assets. Designed to be highly engaging and interactive, Ian will explore relevant scenarios and delve into the dark side of understanding where your most critical assets are open to the greatest risk.

Join Ian as he hosts IOActive’s very first hacker scavenger hunt where participants have an opportunity to win their own Raspberry Pi. The red team scavenger hunt – called IOActive Red Team Domination – is a mash up of CTF, lock-picking challenge, crypto, and social engineering. It’s open to all attendees of SOURCE Boston and has been engineered for maximum fun.

About Ian Amit
Ian Amit is Director of Services for IOActive. Ian oversees the northeast US services practice including the financial and healthcare sectors, as well as leading the red team division. Ian brings a mixture of software development, OS, network, and web security to work on a daily basis. He is also a regular guest speaker on Fox Business as well as at leading security conferences around the world (Black Hat, DefCon, OWASP, and InfoSecurity), and has published numerous articles and research material in print, online, and through broadcast media. Ian is one of the founders of the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES), its counterpart – the SexyDefense Initiative, and a core member of the DirtySecurity Crew. Ian holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Business Administration from the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzlya.

About SOURCE
SOURCE Conference is the world’s first security conference and training event to focus on bringing together the business and technical communities. At SOURCE, technical experts publish advanced research and network for job opportunities, while executives keep up with the technology that shapes their important decisions. Both leave SOURCE with an understanding of each other’s perspectives on the critical security problems that face the world.

Through a combination of lectures, workshops, trainings, and discussion groups, SOURCE Boston equips attendees with the knowledge and skills to be effective in today’s fast-paced computer security industry.

SOURCE is designed for computer security experts, senior executives (e.g. CIOs, CTOs, CSOs), advanced security professionals, faculty and students, members of management and business communities who are looking to connect with other security and technology experts.

About IOActive
IOActive is a comprehensive, high-end information security services firm with a long and established pedigree in delivering elite security services to its customers. Our world-renowned consulting and research teams deliver a portfolio of specialist security services ranging from penetration testing and application code assessment through to semiconductor reverse engineering. Global 500 companies across every industry continue to trust IOActive with their most critical and sensitive security issues. Founded in 1998, IOActive is headquartered in Seattle, USA, with global operations through the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pac regions. Visit www.ioactive.com for more information. Follow IOActive on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ioactive.

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