IOActive’s Cesar Cerrudo to Host Workshop at Black Hat USA

IOActive’s Chief Technology Officer of IOActive Labs will host a workshop concerning Windows vulnerability hunting

Seattle, Wash—July 1, 2011. IOActive, a leading provider of application security, compliance, and smart grid security services, today announced that Cesar Cerrudo, their CTO of IOActive Labs, will host the workshop Easy and Quick Vulnerability Hunting in Windows at Black Hat USA in Las Vegas. The Black Hat Briefings are a series of highly technical information security conferences that bring together thought leaders from all facets of the infoSec world—from the corporate and government sectors to academic and even underground researchers. Black Hat remains the best and biggest event of its kind, unique in its ability to define tomorrow's information security landscape.

Cerrudo's workship will teach attendees how to quickly and easily find vulnerabilities in Windows applications by leverage easy-to-use tools. He will describe simple techniques that can be used by both experts and amateurs to obtain great results. Learning these techniques will allow attendees to perform quick audits on Windows applications and determine their current security level. Cerrudo will demonstrate how to spot vulnerabilities with just a couple of clicks or with short debugging sessions.

WHAT  Easy and Quick Vulnerability Hunting in Windows

WHERE  Caesar's Palace Hotel

WHEN  August 3, 2011. 10:00 am – 12:30 pm

HOW  For more information, visit the Black Hat website.

About Cesar Cerrudo
Cesar Cerrudo is CTO at IOActive Labs, where he leads the team in performing cutting-edge research in the areas of SCADA, mobile devices, application security, and more. Formerly the founder and CEO of Argeniss Consulting—which was acquired by IOActive—Cesar is a world-renowned security researcher and specialist in application security.

Throughout his career, Cesar has been credited with discovering and helping to eliminate dozens of vulnerabilities in leading applications including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle database server, IBM DB2, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Commerce Server, Microsoft Windows, and Yahoo! Messenger. Cesar also has authored several white papers on database and application security, and attacks and exploitation techniques—and he has been invited to present at such conferences as Black Hat, Bellua, CanSecWest, EuSecWest, WebSec, HITB, Microsoft BlueHat, EkoParty, FRHACK, H2HC, and Defcon. Cesar collaborates with and is regularly quoted in print and online publications including eWeek, computerWorld, and other leading journals.

About IOActive
Established in 1998, IOActive is an industry leader that offers comprehensive computer security services with specializations in smart grid technologies, software assurance, and compliance. Boasting a well-rounded and diverse clientele, IOActive works with a majority of Global 500 companies including power and utility, hardware, retail, financial, media, aerospace, high-tech, and software development organizations. As a home for highly skilled and experienced professionals, IOActive attracts talented consultants who contribute to the growing body of security knowledge by speaking at such elite conferences as Black Hat, Ruxcon, Defcon, BlueHat, CanSec, and WhatTheHack. For more information, visit www.ioactive.com.

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