Apple is sponsoring, for the first time in a long time, a conference for computer security, which is taking place in San Francisco. Called BSides, this conference offers IT security experts the opportunity to meet and discuss ways in which it can be improved.
It is not known how much money Apple offers for the discovery of vulnerabilities, but the organizers made it clear that the amount itself would not be very large. Despite this, the simple fact that Apple is sponsoring the event is a gesture that gives credibility to the conferences and could lead to other similar sponsorships in the future.
The BSides conferences are taking place starting today and continuing through tomorrow, with a variety of presentations to be held for those present. What kind of presence Apple will have there is hard to say, but there will most likely be some company engineers who will carefully follow the discussions to learn possible new methods to increase the security of Apple products.
In recent years, those from Cupertino have begun to put more and more emphasis on the security of the products they offer, so sponsoring events of this kind is not surprising.
"BSides SF is a non-profit organization designed to advance the body of Information Security knowledge, by providing an annual, two day, open forum for discussion and debate for security engineers and their affiliates. We produce a conference that is a source of education, collaboration, and continued conversation for information technologists and those associated with this field. The technical and academic presentations at BSides SF are given in the spirit of peer review and advanced knowledge dissemination. This allows the field of Information Security to grow in breadth and depth, and continue in its pursuit of highly advanced scientifically based knowledge."
