Hawk Network Defense to present at Black Hat USA 2010

Hawk Network Defense, of Dallas, TX, announced in June that Tim Shelton - Hawk Network Defense’s vice president of research and development - has been selected to speak at the Black Hat USA 2010 Briefings that will take place at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV, on July 28-29.

Tim Shelton will talk about the advanced AIX heap exploitation methods, as this operating system has been a highly valued target for hackers over the past ten years. “Many of the largest enterprises in the world run their businesses on AIX systems,” stated AIX reseller Phil Godwin, the vice president of sales and marketing at Clear Technologies. “As a result, it is imperative that security gaps on these systems be mitigated.”

Shelton’s presentation will illustrate the security risks that could potentially halt the productivity of targeted companies. He will introduce Heap Exploitation Methods to limit future exposure.

Black Hat USA brings together security experts from the corporate and government sectors as well as the academics and researchers. The Black Hat Briefings is a major security conference series that serves the information security community by delivering timely, actionable security information in a friendly, vendor-neutral environment.

Hawk Network Defense, Inc. is an application and network security consulting company which specializes in application and security consulting, intrusion detection and correlation, and application code security auditing. Its researchers have a strong background in information security industry and have found significant security related vulnerabilities in a number of high profile, enterprise applications. Hawk Network Defense offers information security focused services including application auditing, hardening, and compliancy checks.