Ian Amit of IOActive to deliver Keynote Address and Workshop at Colombia’s Largest Information Security Conference
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…
IOActive’s ICS Experts Lucas Apa and Carlos Penagos to demonstrate new research at EnergySec Security Summit
Seattle, USA ― September 13, 2013 ― IOActive, Inc., the leading global provider of specialist information security services, today announced that Lucas Apa and Carlos Penagos, world authorities on Industrial Control Systems (ICS), will be presenting their acclaimed research titled ’Compromising Industrial Facilities From 40 Miles Away’. For the first time to a public audience, the researchers will be demonstrating the vulnerabilities and attack vectors they uncovered. The presentation will be given at the 9th annual EnergySec Security Summit, being held in Denver, Colorado. Having uncovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in wireless technologies used extensively…
IOActive Continues Global Expansion with New EMEA Headquarters
Trendy new office space offers ideal setting for cutting edge research and recruiting London, UK – September 10, 2013 – IOActive, Inc., the leading global provider of specialist information security services, today announced the opening of its new Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in London’s west end of Soho. IOActive has been established in the UK for over five years and completed the move this week from their space at Canary Wharf to the more spacious and central location on Charing Cross Road in Soho. The new facilities provide…
IOActive’s Chris Valasek to present on Internet Explorer 9 at Nordic Security Conference 2013
London, UK – August 28, 2013 – IOActive, Inc., the leading global provider of specialist information security services, today announced that Chris Valasek, director of security intelligence for the company, will be presenting his findings of string allocations for Microsoft’s IE9 web browser. The presentation will take place during the Briefings section of the Nordic Security Conference, which takes place this week – 29 to 30 August – in Reykjavik, Iceland. Valasek’s presentation will focus on how the allocation of memory, specifically user-controlled strings, has played a major role in browser…
IOActive’s Reid Wightman to present vulnerabilities in Embedded Industrial Controllers at EDSC
Seattle, USA – August 12, 2013 – The leading global provider of specialist information security services, today announced that Reid Wightman, a security consultant for the company, will present at Seattle’s embedded device security conference (EDSC) on industrial controller design issues that compromise the security of these devices and threaten the function and safety of the respective facilities where they are used. Wightman will focus on embedded controllers used in industrial process control and SCADA systems, calling out specific design flaws and detailing new classes of attack that render them highly vulnerable. The…
IOActive Becomes a Founding Provider for New Framework from Open Compute Project Foundation to Improve Data Center and Cloud Security Posture