IOActive's Dan Kaminsky to Present at SIGINT 2010

IOActive’s director of penetration testing to discuss techniques for better securing the web

Seattle, Wash—May 14, 2010. IOActive, a leading provider of application security, compliance, and smart grid security services today announced that Dan Kaminsky, its director of penetration testing, was selected to present The Fine Art of Hari Kari – And Other Approaches for the Strange Reality of Web Defense at SIGINT 2010.

Securing the web is a difficult task that can lead to friction between web developers, browser manufacturers, and security professionals. To help simplify this task, Kaminsky will discuss techniques for mitigating entire classes of cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks. He also will discuss Treelocking, a generic mechanism for mitigating injections into protocols as diverse as SQL, LDAP, XML, and JSON.

WHAT  The Fine Art of Hari Kari – And Other Approaches For the Strange Reality of Web Defense

WHEN  May 22, 2010. 9–9:45 pm

HOW  For more information, visit their website.

About Dan Kaminsky
Dan Kaminsky is the director of penetration testing at IOActive where he specializes in design-level fault analysis, particularly against massive-scale network applications. Previously of Cisco and Avaya, Kaminsky has operated professionally in the security space for over 10 years. He is well known for his "Black Ops" series of talks at the well-respected Black Hat Briefings. Kaminsky regularly collects detailed data on the health of the Internet, and used this data to detect the worldwide proliferation of a major rootkit. In 2008, he discovered a major flaw in the Internet's DNS infrastructure and worked with security engineers around the world, protecting countless organizations and individuals against this threat.

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 the likes of Dan Kaminsky, Ilja van Sprundel, Mike Davis, and Wes Brown—talented consultants who contribute to the growing body of security knowledge by speaking at such elite conferences as Black Hat, Ruxcon, Defcon, Shakacon, BlueHat, CanSec, and WhatTheHack. For more information, visit www.ioactive.com.

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