Lockpicking and IT Security
In this lecture, Walter Belgers will look at security flaws in locks to see how they came about. He shows us how similar mistakes are made in software development and in the deployment of safety locks: In both cases, we have to deal with design flaws, implementation errors, denial-of-service attacks, zero days, brute force attacks, user errors and more. Walter will demonstrate these physical flaws live, and we will see some interesting differences in the way security is looked at in hardware and in software: Lock designers and software engineers have a lot to learn from each other.
About the speaker
Walter Belgers
Walter Belgers is busy in the security and computing science field since age 8.
He has experience in setting up security systems, international roll-out, education, auditing, you name it.
He is owner and COO of Madison Gurkha, a Dutsch security company with a name that sticks.
The last 15+ years he was also involved in giving lectures and organising conferences (board member of EuroBSDCon 2004, chair or member of the program committee for many others; probably a reason he has sympathy for Swiss Cyber Storm).
Walter’s specialties include Security (computers and other), UNIX, computer science in general (operating systems, computer languages, hardware), teaching, explaining, social engineering, organising, giving lectures.
AND: Lockpicking! Walter is a multiple winner of Dutch lockpicking championships and the president of TOOOL (The Open Organisation of Lockpickers).
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