Seattle, USA ― September 17, 2013 ― IOActive, Inc., the leading global provider of specialist information security services, today announced Ian Amit, director of services, will be presenting the keynote presentation – Cyber’ security – all good, no need to worry? – at Security Zone taking place this week in Colombia.
In his keynote address, Ian will address the current state of security that organisations are finding themselves at and have been for the past few years. He will tackle the issue of stagnation that is caused by siloing security into product-based solutions rather than addressing the security issue from a risk management perspective.
He will also talk about how organisations can break out of this paradigm, by creating more overlap between silos and improving the risk management practice from the top down, rather than focusing on “easy to solve” technical issues which end up creating bigger vulnerabilities around them. As part of his talk, Ian will show examples of organisations where the use siloing has been proven not to hold its own as security incidents kept causing loss of reputation and money.
In addition to his keynote presentation at Security Zone, Ian will present a one-day workshop on Red Team Testing with Chris Nickerson. In this workshop they aim to provide attendees with the fundamentals needed to start working on a red team and building one, whether it is on the execution side or at the tested organisation side. They will help attendees understand what the main goals of a red team engagement are, as well as the benefits that an organisation being tested would get from such a test.
As part of its full service delivery capability, IOActive offers Red Team Testing to its customers. A red team test is a no-holds barred, end-to-end assessment of an organisation’s security infrastructure and potential vulnerabilities. All elements of the organisation’s infrastructure are potential targets.
Details of the presentation:
WHAT: Keynote: ’Cyber’ security – all good, no need to worry?
WHERE: Pacific Valley Event Center, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
WHEN: Thursday September 19, 2013 at 15:00pm
Details of the workshop:
WHAT: Red Team Testing
WHERE: Pacific Valley Event Center, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
WHEN: Wednesday September 18, 2013
About Security Zone
Security Zone is a world-class event with local and foreign speakers that takes place in the city of Cali, Colombia. The event, which has taken place since 2011, is based on the single objective of ’Respect for diversity of knowledge and development of actions that allow the community to interact with the technologies of computer security world, contributing to the management of ICT.’ Security Zone is recognised as the best information security event in Colombia, Latin America and one of the best in the world.
About Ian Amit
Ian Amit is the Director of Services at leading boutique security consulting company IOActive, where he leads the northeast US services practice looking after the financial and healthcare sectors, as well as leading the red team practice. He brings a mixture of Software development, OS, Network and web security to work on a daily basis. He is also a frequent speaker at leading security conferences around the world (including BlackHat, DefCon, OWASP, InfoSecurity, etc…), and has published numerous articles and research material in leading print, online and 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. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Business Administration from the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzlya.
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.
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