OREANDA-NEWS. April 23, 2015. Kaspersky Lab today announces that Security Evangelist David Jacoby will be a speaker at RSA Conference USA 2015. During his presentation, David will discuss the research experiment he completed in his own living room to find out how safe his home is in terms of cyber security.

What: “How Vulnerable Are Our Homes? - The Story of How My Home Got Hacked,”

When: April 22, 2015 at 10:20 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. PT

Where: RSA Conference, Moscone Center West, Room 3018, San Francisco, CA

As connected homes become more of a reality for consumers, the security of those devices is being called into question by the security industry. Through his research David looks to discover what it takes to hack into someone’s home, including attack vectors and entry points.

As a Security Evangelist, David has over 15 years’ experience in IT security and is well-known international security conference speaker. At Kaspersky Lab, he is involved in extensive threat research in efforts to improve awareness of current and future threats and vulnerabilities.

More details can be found here.

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