IOActive’s Joshua Pennell to Present at 44Con 2011

IOActive’s Founder and President to present There's an App for That: Evolving Mobile Security into a Business Advantage

Seattle, Wash—August 29, 2011. IOActive, a leading provider of application security, compliance, and smart grid security services, today announced that Joshua Pennell, Founder and President, will present There's an App for That: Evolving Mobile Security into a Business Advantage at 44Con. 44Con is the UK's premier technical information security training and conference event, bringing the best and brightest security speakers from Europe, Asia, and America to the UK.

The conference's two tracks—covering both technical security and more business-focused management security issues—provides delegates with valuable insight and thought leadership on information security hot topics, while providing deep technical analysis and highlighting new tools and vulnerabilities. In addition, the training sessions offer valuable education on issues of current importance to security professionals.

Joshua Pennell, a security veteran who has cracked into multiple mobile platforms, will review what companies should do when deploying a mobile strategy. From wiring money and accepting deposits to buying cars, apps on mobile devices are the desired platform for the go-generation. With around 54 million smart phone devices and an average of 22 applications per device, analysts predict smart phone sales to exceed PC sales in 2011. Pennell will present his findings on which platforms are the most trustworthy for companies and what parts of these platforms offer the most lucrative or exploitable target for malware, hackers, or fraudsters.

WHAT  There's an App for That: Evolving Mobile Security into a Business Advantage

WHERE  Grange City Hotel 5*

WHEN  September 1–2, 2011. Time TBD.

HOW  For more information, visit the 44Con website.

About Joshua Pennell
As IOActive's Founder and President, Joshua Pennell enjoys a proven, 12-year entrepreneurial track record of creating and maintaining a multimillion-dollar, customer-focused, independent global security services organization. Through Pennell's leadership, IOActive has emerged as one of the world's longest standing, highly technical boutique security consultancies with a history based on cutting-edge research and meritocratic governance.

Pennell serves on the advisory boards of Source, Vantos, and SiteScout. Pennell also is the Chairmain of IOActive's advisory board, which includes such computer industry luminaries as Steve Wozniak, Jim Reavis, and Jason Larsen. In years past, Pennell played an integral role in helping his team win Defcon's Capture the Flag competition for three consecutive years, followed by another three years of technically revolutionizing the competition before handing the game over to Kenshoto.

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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