Join us at Etsy’s Code as Craft

We’re excited to announce that Sophia D’Antoine will be the next featured speaker at Etsy’s Code as Craft series on Wednesday, February 10th from 6:30-8pm in NYC.

What is Code as Craft?

Etsy Code as Craft events are a semi-monthly series of guest speakers who explore a technical topic or computing trend, sharing both conceptual ideas and practical advice. All talks will take place at the Etsy Labs on the 7th floor at 55 Washington Street in beautiful Brooklyn (Suite 712). Come see an awesome speaker and take a whirl in our custom photo booth. We hope to see you at an upcoming event!

In her talk, Sophia will discuss the latest in iOS security and the cross-section between this topic and compiler theory. She will discuss one of our ongoing projects, MAST, a mobile application security toolkit for iOS, which we discussed on this blog last year. Since then, we’ve continued to work on it, added new features, and transitioned it from a proof-of-concept DARPA project to a full-fledged mobile app protection suite.

What’s the talk about?

iOS applications have become an increasingly popular targets for hackers, reverse engineers, and software pirates. In this presentation, we discuss the current state of iOS attacks, review available security APIs, and reveal why they are not enough to defend against known threats. For high-risk applications, novel protections that go beyond those offered by Apple are required. As a solution, we discuss the design of the Mobile Application Security Toolkit (MAST) which ties together jailbreak detection, anti-debugging, and anti-reversing in LLVM to address these risks.

We hope to see you there. If you’re interested in attending, follow this link to register. MAST is still a beta product, so if you’re interested in using it on your own iOS applications after seeing this talk, contact us directly.