This course will focus on the techniques and tools for testing the security of iOS mobile applications. During this course the students will learn about important topics such as the iOS Security model, the Simulator, how to perform static analysis, traffic manipulation, and dynamic analysis. By taking this course you will be able to perform penetration testing on iOS mobile applications and expose potential vulnerabilities in the tested application.
Chilik Tamir is an information security expert with over two decades of experience in training, research, development, testing and consulting in the field of applicative information security for clients in the fields of finance, security, government offices and corporations. His latest research - the iOS iNalyzer is an open-source iOS application Penetration Testing Dashboard. Among his previous publications you will find AppUse – a testing environment for Android applications developed together with Erez Metula; Belch – an automatic tool for analysis and testing of binary protocols such as Flex and Java-Serialization; as well as his lectures in conferences in Israel such as OWASP IL 2011 and OWASP IL 2012. He is the Chief Scientist at AppSec Labs, where he acts as head of R&D and innovation. Chilik holds an Biomedical Engineering B.Sc. degree.