TILLER BEAUCHAMP SELECTED TO PRESENT AT SHAKACON CONFERENCE

IOActive's Principal Consultant will discuss the use of dynamic tracing for exploitation development and fuzzing.

Seattle, Wash—May 20, 2009. IOActive, a leading provider of comprehensive security services, today announced that one of their Principal Security Consultants, Tiller Beauchamp, was selected to present at the upcoming Shakacon conference in Hawaii. The Shakacon security conference brings industry, government, academia, and independent experts together to share knowledge and network with peers and fellow enthusiasts in a relaxed setting that promotes a "holistic" security view.

Beauchamp will present Dynamic Tracing for Exploitation and Fuzzing Overview and will demonstrate how dynamic tracing can be used to find bugs, visualize code review, and gather critical information about an application. Beauchamp will apply these techniques to OS X and FreeBSD, and discuss dynamic tracing's specific limitations, which can be overcome by using a custom programmatic debugger. Building on this, he will demonstrate how dynamic tracing can be used to fuzz libraries and device drivers.

WHAT   Tiller Beauchamp presents Dynamic Tracing for Exploitation and Fuzzing Overview

WHERE   Shakacon. Hawaii Convention Center, 3rd Floor.

WHEN   June 11–12, 2009.

HOW   For more information about Shakacon, visit their website.

About IOActive

IOActive is an industry leader that offers comprehensive security services including software assurance, smart grid security, infrastructure audits, training, incident response, PCI compliance, and risk management. IOActive has attracted many well-known security experts including Dan Kaminsky, Jason Larsen, Steve Wozniak, Mike Davis, and Ilja van Sprundel. More information is available at www.ioactive.com.

About Tiller Beauchamp

Tiller Beauchamp is a principal security consultant at IOActive, a global provider of comprehensive security services. Previously, Beauchamp worked as a senior security consultant for SAIC where he provided security auditing services to large commercial, state, and DoD customers. His areas of expertise include network penetration testing, web applicaton security, the secure development lifecycle, application/network security, and exploit development. His many notable accomplishments include creating the RE:Trace framework, a Ruby-based framework for interacting with the powerful DTRace vulnerability research tool. He also is a frequent speaker at key industry events including Black Hat, Defcon, and RECON.

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