Experts in codes

The increase in economic activities, personal communications and services offered through the Internet, has made security in the interchange of information and transactions one of the key elements in the development of what will the be the future of the Internet.

A group of multidiscipline professionals will guide the participants of this area through the different facets contemplated by computer security: forensic analysis, perimeter security, networking, encryption, systems and architecture of networks, etc…

Also, the campuseros will be able to try out their talent by trying to solve a security challenge, which will make them use all their knowledge on the material.

Coordinated by Security by Default (Alejandro Ramos, José A. Guasch, Lorenzo Martínez, Laura García y Yago Jesús, Spain).

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Joanna Rutkowska at Campus Party Europe

Joanna Rutkowska, founder of Invisible Things Lab, leads a team of researchers who focus on system-level security. This includes kernel, hypervisor, chipset and CPU security issues. The recent achievements of the team include: bypassing Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT), attacks on System Management Mode (SMM), Intel vPro/AMT and vPro BIOS, and demonstration of practical Xen hypervisor compromises. She is also known for writing Blue Pill -- the first virtualization-based rootkit with nested hypervisors support, and also for her work on various kernel mode malware for Windows and Linux. Her speech at Campus Party Europe will concentrate around desktop/laptop operating system security.

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Web Application Security

Stefano Di Paola is the CTO and a cofounder of Minded Security, where he is responsible for Research and Development Lab. Prior to founding Minded Security, Stefano was a freelance security consultant, working for several private and public companies. He also worked in collaboration with University of Florence at the Faculty of Computer Engineering. Stefano is recognized as one of the top application security researchers. In the past years he released several cutting edge security advisories and researches presented at several international events (Flash application security testing, Subverting Ajax). He is the Research & Development Director of OWASP Italian Chapter and contributor to several chapters of the OWASP testing guide. At Campus Party Europe, Di Paola will dictate the lecture "Web Application Security, past present and future concerns".