ITWeb’s fifth annual Security Summit from 11 to 13 May at Sandton Convention Centre

Moxie Marlinspike will examine modern threats to privacy. He is the author of published research on secure protocols and creator of sslsniff and sslstrip tools. “A lot has changed since discussions around digital privacy began. Rather than a centralised state-backed database of all our movements, modern threats to privacy have become something much more subtle, and perhaps all the more sinister.” His talk will explore these evolving trends and discuss some interesting solutions in the works.

Felix ‘FX’ Lindner will highlight the gap between security theory and practice for securing communications infrastructure. Lindner co-authored The Shellcoder’s Handbook, which describes how to find security holes in any operating system or application.