Apple Security Supervisor will attend the BlackHat Conference to talk iOS 13 and macOS security

Ivan Krstic, Apple’s director of security engineering, will attend the Black Hat Security Conference to talk about the security technologies behind iOS 13 and macOS Catalina, and how the new lookup app works. The 2019 Black Hat event will take place from August 3 to August 8 at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ivan Krstic will bring a 50-minute presentation “Behind the scenes of iOS and Mac Security”, which will be Apple’s first public introduction to iOS 13 and Mac key security technologies.

Ivan Krstic is Apple‘s director of security engineering and architecture and has participated in the Black Hat Security Conference many times. The presentation focuses on three areas related to security, starting with code integrity implementation, which is a key part of the iOS security architecture. The presentation covers the history of code and memory integrity techniques in the iOS kernel, as well as the pointer authentication code in the A12 Bionic and S4 chips, which prohibits the modification of important elements that can cause memory corruption errors.

Via: macrumors