Presented at
The Eleventh HOPE (2016),
July 23, 2016, 10 p.m.
(60 minutes)
This past May, in response to the growing sophistication of cyberattacks and application exploits, U.S. lawmakers (almost unanimously) passed the first-ever federal law concerning trade secret protection: the Defense of Trade Secrets Act. Under the DTSA, however, reverse engineering is protected and deemed 100 percent legal. Within weeks, the EU followed with their own directive increasing trade secret protection while protecting reverse engineering. This talk discusses how this new law impacts reverse engineering, the pros and cons of tying reverse engineering to the courts, best practices for code development, limitations on reverse engineering, counterattacks to those limitations, and counterattacks to the counterattacks.
Presenters:
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Alexander Urbelis
Alexander Urbelis, CEO of Black Chambers Inc., an information security consultancy, and a partner in the Blackstone Law Group, is an attorney who has also been part of the Infosec community for more than 20 years, and a part of 2600 in one way or another since 1994. Over the years, Alex has worked for the U.S. Army, Dartmouth College's Institute for Security Technology Studies (a federally funded cybersecurity and counterterrorism research center), the CIA, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the international law firm of Steptoeand Johnson, and as information security counsel and chief compliance officer of one of the world's largest luxury conglomerates. Alex holds a BA, summa cum laude, in philosophy from Stony Brook University, a JD, magna cum laude, from Vermont Law School, and the BCL from New College, Oxford University.
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Sebastian Holst
Sebastian Holst is chief strategy officer at Preemptive Solutions, makers of application security and analytics products. Over the last 20 years, Sebastian has held leadership positions in risk management, content management, and database software companies. In addition, he has worked to promote computing and industry standards, serving on the W3C Advisory Committee, ActOnline.org, OCEG.org, and as an IDEAlliance board member. Sebastian most recently testified on privacy and IP topics before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. He also lends his time to a boutique cybersecurity firm that he cofoundedand to TheMobileYogi, a mobile app portfolio company cofounded with his wife.
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