Apple Talks Security at Black Hat Conference

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Between July 30 and August 4, one of the most important meetings in terms of computer security was held in Las Vegas, we are talking about the 19th edition of the Black Hat Conference. On this occasion Ivan Krstic He participated in the Cybersecurity conference, describing the details in which the company works.

Mr. Krstić joined Apple in 2009 and is currently responsible for the security of Apple equipment regardless of the software or system: IOS, MacOS, but also iCloud or other cloud services.

Apple security works with three technologies: HomeKit, Auto Unlock, and iCloud Keychain. With HomeKit intends to have control of devices at the user's home, Self Unlock that allows you to unlock devices with the Apple Watch and the ICloud Keychain to safeguard passwords and credit card numbers. The premise of work is to minimize the information that travels. If the sending of information from our computer to the Apple server is reduced and this information returns to the rest of our computers with which we want to synchronize, we reduce the chances of loss or theft of such information. In the presentation, he comments on his new work plan that allows synchronizing user information in a protected way and receives the name of Data Protection.

In addition, he dedicated a space to talk about Secure Enclave, which appeared with the introduction of the A7 Chip and saves the information of our fingerprint that we provide to the touch ID

On the other hand, it announced the launch, starting next September, a pioneering initiative, which will consist of bringing together a group of researchers working in the error detection. The company will offer up to $ 200.000 in reward.

If you are interested in knowing in depth the details of the conference, you can watch it in the following video.


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