Jim Stickley
Jim
Stickley is an internationally renowned security expert. He has been a
consultant for 20/20, Network Associates, numerous magazines and newspapers and
was featured in BusinessWeek and on Security Focus. In addition he serves as a
featured speaker at numerous industry tradeshows throughout the United States.
Jim Stickley also writes a monthly column for Cyber Defense Magazine called
Cyber Sideline. Before co-founding Trace Security, Jim was the
Security Director for another leading security company.
Through the years Jim Stickley has discovered numerous security vulnerabilities
in products such as firewalls, PKI servers and online banking applications. His
discovery and proof of concept code against a leading firewall was the first of
its kind allowing a remote attacker to completely takeover the firewall and use
it to continue their attack on the "protected" network. As is expected Jim
Stickley always works with the manufacturers to resolve these issues and never
releases source code to the public.
Jim Stickley’s ability to compromise online banking applications has afforded
him a strong reputation in the financial community. After discovering several
major security flaws in one popular online banking application used throughout
the United States, Jim Stickley was retained to perform a comprehensive
assessment of the entire product by the manufacturer.
Jim Stickley has written software for corporations such as Kodak, Mann Theatres
and IKON document services. His knowledge of security risks and vulnerabilities
affords him a unique advantage to writing extremely secure software. Jim
Stickley has performed security services for financial institutions, fortune 100
corporations, medical facilitates, legal firms, insurance companies and more.
The New Trends of Social Engineering
With the increase of stronger network security and identity theft at an all time high, hackers are deploying creative new social engineering techniques as a means to gain customer confidential information. In this session we discuss various attack techniques specifically designed against high risk facilities and how to defend against them. Topics include remote attacks such as the latest in email and phone scams as well as numerous on site attacks. Both physical security and network security are at risk to social engineering attacks. By demonstrating these malicious techniques throughout the presentation, individuals in all job capacities will gain valuable information that can be applied to daily business operations.