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FinDEVr Live: Coinalytics Helps Businesses Leverage the Blockchain for Actionable Intelligence

FinDEVr Live: Coinalytics Helps Businesses Leverage the Blockchain for Actionable Intelligence
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Categories: Coinalytics, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

Coinalytics_homepage_FinDEVr2015

coinalytics | blog.coinalytics.co | @coinalytics

Coinalytics_FinDEVr2015_logoDriven by the vision of decoding the world’s most powerful dataset, Coinalytics has developed an end-to-end intelligence platform, combining a variety of datasets and analytics to provide actionable insights and operational intelligence to the bitcoin industry. The path-breaking platform brings real-time machine learning and graph analytics capabilities to the blockchain.

Decoding the blockchain
The blockchain is the underlying ledger of bitcoin, where every transaction is recorded. Due to its decentralized and pseudonymous nature, understanding the data and deriving actionable insights in real time is no small challenge. We will cover a high-level overview of the Coinalytics platform and its architecture, taking a deep dive into the API. We explore some use-cases and applications for real-time blockchain intelligence.

Key takeaways:

  • Leveraging the blockchain for compliance and operational intelligence
  • Understanding the challenges of real-time blockchain analytics
  • Interacting with the Coinalytics platform

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Presenters:

Bill Gleim, Tech Lead
LinkedIn | @billgleim | [email protected]

James Edwards, Principal Infrastructure Engineer

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FinDEVr Live: Token Introduces its End-to-End Secure Payments Ecosystem

FinDEVr Live: Token Introduces its End-to-End Secure Payments Ecosystem
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Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Token

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token.io | @token_io

FS2015_Token_logo_snagToken provides a new rail for instant, secure, and flexible payments. The Token Payment Platform is an end-to-end secure payment system accessible to developers, wherein all transactions are authorized using digital signatures. With Token, third-party developers easily add payments and identity to their websites and apps. There is no worrying about PCI compliance or protecting user information as Token is based on public-key cryptography rather than shared secrets such as usernames and passwords. Token is focused on delivering the best developer experience to be had, allowing developers to focus on their core mission.

The future of payments now
Learn how website and app developers improve conversion rates and customer experience with Token’s new payment rail. Gone are the troubles with payment cards and other antiquated payment methods. You’ll see how Token supports current payment models and how it creates opportunities for new and exciting business models. You’ll see how incredibly smooth user provisioning is, how easy it is to integrate with websites and apps, and what rock-solid security means. Basically, you’ll get to know the future of payments now.

Key takeaways:

  • How to increase conversion rates for websites and mobile apps
  • What a good customer experience really looks like
  • How security concerns will be a thing of the past

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Presenter:

Bill York, VP Development
LinkedIn

York is Token’s VP of product where he is responsible for the execution of Token’s product strategy. He has 20+ years of experience in building great teams and products for both consumer and enterprise applications.

Prior to joining Token, York was VP of product and technology for Tile, and also held executive leadership positions at Reachable. He was a founder, CTO, and SVP for product development at Comergent, an enterprise e-commerce software company used by clients including Cisco, Intel, and DIRECTV.

 

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FinDEVr Live: Capital One Enables Continuous Integration and Delivery for Developers in Regulated Environments

FinDEVr Live: Capital One Enables Continuous Integration and Delivery for Developers in Regulated Environments
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Categories: Capital One, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

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capitalone.com | @CapitalOne

CapitalOne_FinDEVr2015_logoCapital One Financial Corporation is a financial holding company—subsidiaries include Capital One, N.A. and Capital One Bank (USA), N.A.—with $208.8 billion in deposits and $310.5 billion in total assets as of June 30, 2015. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Capital One offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients through a variety of channels. Capital One, N.A. has branches located primarily in New York, New Jersey, Texas, Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. A Fortune 500 company, Capital One trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “COF” and is included in the S&P 100 index.

Continuous integration and delivery in a regulated environment
Financial institutions are required to comply with numerous regulations. Considering they are responsible for other people’s money, they should. While regulations are often seen as limiting the ability for a company to move quickly, this does not have to be the case. In this talk you will hear that it is possible to continuously integrate and deliver in a regulated environment, ways it can be done, and the lessons learned from an organization that is already making huge strikes in this area.

Key takeaways:

  • Continuous integration and delivery are possible in regulated environments
  • Things to consider if you are regulated and want to make the move to CI/CD
  • Challenges to be faced internally and with regulators on your journey

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Presenter: Gill Haus, Capital One’s Managing VP, Digital Innovation, Retail and Direct Bank
LinkedIn | @oronhaus

Haus is responsible for building and sustaining an innovative technology organization while fostering a culture of excellence in software engineering and digital product development.

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FinDEVr Live: A New API from Intuit Developer Group Gives Builders Access to End-user Authenticated Financial Data

FinDEVr Live: A New API from Intuit Developer Group Gives Builders Access to End-user Authenticated Financial Data
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Intuit, Intuit Developer Group

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developer.intuit.com | developer.intuit.com/blog | @Intuitdev

IntuitDeveloper_FinDEVr2015_logoIntuit Developer offers you a vast, ready-to-tap opportunity to generate app revenues and grow your business. Our goal is to help you get your app built, published, and adopted as quickly as possible using best-in-class tools, high-quality APIs, industry-leading security practices and dedicated support.

Intuit’s financial data APIs
Intuit’s Financial Data APIs provide developers with access to end-user authenticated financial data:

Transactions API provides access to financial account information from 20,000 financial institutions.

Identification API provides bank account and routing numbers and personal information on the bank owner to verify identity and reduce friction in setting up an ACH.

Key takeaways:

  • Forget your checkbook or micro-deposits, get the information you need to set up an ACH in seconds with your bank account username and password
  • Access end-user authenticated data from more than 20,000 financial institutions
  • Leverage the same technology that fuels Mint, QuickBooks, and Quicken, and join the thousands of developers who are part of the Intuit developer community.

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Presenters:

Emily Silberstein, Head of Financial Data APIs (CAD)
LinkedIn |@ersilberstein

Silberstein manages Intuit’s Financial Data Services business for third-party developers. Prior to Intuit, Silberstein was a fintech entrepreneur, launching and running the Asia business for an alternative data credit scoring startup. Silberstein holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and is originally from Iowa.

Jarred Keneally (not pictured), Head of Developer Relations Engineering
LinkedIn | @JarredKeneally

Keneally is a developer relations leader and has been with Intuit for 15 years. He has a background in software engineering and a degree in computer engineering from Northeastern University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and children.

Chase Ellsworth, Software Engineer, Earnest

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FinDEVr Live: Build, Test, and Deploy in the Cloud with The Beast Apps

FinDEVr Live: Build, Test, and Deploy in the Cloud with The Beast Apps
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, The Beast Apps

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thebeastapps.com

TheBeastApps_FinDEVr2015_logoThe Beast Apps offers an application distribution as a service (ADaaS) as a utility in a pay-as-you-go business model where vendors can build-test-deploy their commercial apps in the cloud within hours and days, as opposed to weeks and months. The Beast Apps ADaaS has attracted some really big financial institutions, such as exchanges; inter-dealer brokers (IDBs); electronic communication networks (ECNs); analytics vendors; market data vendors, etc., to leverage the platform and build their Eco System/App Store, significantly reducing time to market and costs, gaining unprecedented business intelligence, significantly enhancing revenue potential, and helping vendors and customers as well, bringing value to the entire ecosystem.

Build-test-deploy in the cloud, now
Today anyone can build a website and publish it within minutes or hours that can be instantly accessed by anyone in the world, anywhere. Apple/Android developers can download an SDK and build and distribute applications with much ease as well. The Beast SDK brings the same ease of building and distributing complex, cloud-based applications in AWS within hours and days. The Beast Apps will demonstrate how you can use its build-test-deploy system to distribute your applications through the cloud, now. The Beast Apps’ ADaaS removes app-distribution challenges, letting you focus on your ‘secret sauce,’ thereby improving the velocity of innovation.

Key takeaways:

  • Build-test-deploy apps in AWS cloud within minutes, hours, days
  • Build your ecosystem, improve velocity of innovation
  • Innovation-collaborative technology

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Presenter: Ashok Mittal, President
LinkedIn | [email protected]

Mittal has more than 30 years of IT experience, the last 20+ years creating a secure, robust, 24×7 application-distribution architecture, including the Beast ADaaS, with a primary focus on helping distribute pre-trade, trade, and post-trade applications in the financial industry.

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FinDEVr Live: Gem Leverages the Blockchain to Redefine Banking from the Ground Up

FinDEVr Live: Gem Leverages the Blockchain to Redefine Banking from the Ground Up
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Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Gem

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gem.co | blog.gem.co | @gemhq

Gem_FinDEVr2015_logoGem makes bitcoin easy by allowing developers to build feature-rich blockchain applications in minutes using less than ten lines of code. By leveraging industry-leading security features such as multisignature wallets, multifactor authentication, and hardware security modules, the Gem API provides an easy-to-use, comprehensive security solution for bitcoin apps, without ever taking possession of funds. Gem’s mission is to empower individuals to have control over their own assets, starting with bitcoin. Founded in 2014, Gem launched at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield and is located in Venice, Calif.

Redefining banking from the ground up
Bitcoin and its underlying technology, the blockchain, triggered a fundamental shift in the way we think about money. The blockchain is redefining age-old practices around payments, custodianship, stock- and asset-issuance, auditing and settlement. And for the first time, it has created an open financial platform that invites any developer from around the world to participate and innovate, without permission. Learn how you can use blockchain technology and the Gem API to build a whole new generation of financial products both inside and outside of the traditional banking system.

Key takeaways:

  • How programmable money and smart contracts can redefine ownership and custody
  • How to secure digital assets from hackers and would-be thieves
  • How practical tools can quickly get you building with the blockchain

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Presenter: Micah Winkelspecht, CEO, Founder
@winkelspecht | [email protected]

Winkelspecht is CEO of Gem, a secure platform for blockchain developers. He is an active bitcoin thought-leader and author of MoneyTree, the first Ruby implementation of a bitcoin HD wallet. Previously, Winkelspecht spent 10+ years developing software for AT&T Interactive, Guide Financial, and Pose.

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FinDEVr Live: Arxan Technologies Protects Apps and Data on Mobile Devices from Emerging Risks

FinDEVr Live: Arxan Technologies Protects Apps and Data on Mobile Devices from Emerging Risks
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Arxan Technologies, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

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arxan.com | @Arxan

Arxan_FinDEVr2015_logoArxan offers solutions for software running on mobile devices, desktops, servers, and embedded platforms—including those connected as part of the internet of things (IOT)—and is currently protecting applications running on more than 400 million devices across a range of industries.

Mobile payments: Protecting apps and data from emerging risks
It is possible to protect sensitive data and transactions while implementing progressive mobile payments technology and preserving the customer experience! Join security expert, Sam Rehman, CTO of Arxan, to understand emerging techniques hackers are using to attack mobile payment applications and related cryptographic keys, and the latest techniques developers can leverage to protect their payment applications and cryptographic keys.

Key takeaways:

  • Mobile app payment landscape
  • How criminals can attack your payment app
  • Comprehensive protection techniques

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Presenter: Sam Rehman, CTO
LinkedIn

Rehman joined Arxan in May 2015 with the mission to shape technical direction and drive innovation. Rehman is a proven technology evangelist and leader with 25+ years of experience in both leading product development and professional services companies.

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FinDEVr Live: Hypori’s VMI Moves Fintech Mobile Apps to a Secure, Virtualized Cloud

FinDEVr Live: Hypori’s VMI Moves Fintech Mobile Apps to a Secure, Virtualized Cloud
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Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Hypori

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hypori.com | @Hypori_Inc

Hypori_FinDEVr2015_logoHypori’s virtual mobile infrastructure platform—VMI—shields enterprises from the risks of BYOD while providing a rich, responsive end-user experience, and a more secure, cost-effective, compliant solution for any organization. The highly scalable and flexible infrastructure helps commercial and public sector organizations bridge the gap between mobile productivity and mobile security.

Hypori’s platform can deliver any unmodified mobile application as a secure service on iOS and Android devices. It’s the only approved solution for accessing mobile apps on the NSA’s Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSFC) and can enable access to any mobile app as the ACE platform takes responsibility for all Common Criteria-mandated security capabilities, absolving the mobile app of these requirements. Hypori’s Virtual Mobile Infrastructure (VMI) platform allows enterprises to keep data and applications in the data center, while providing end-users with a secure and rich, mobile-first experience.

VISA Corp. and Hypori recently demonstrated a Point of Sale as a Service solution leveraging the ACE Platform at FinovateFall in New York City, including a remote access to Bluetooth PoS peripherals.

Key takeaways:

  • Hypori’s architecture for virtual mobile infrastructure
  • VISA case study for leveraging Hypori’s platform for securing mobile point-of-sale terminals
  • Overview of how Hypori’s platform can be used to secure other banking and finance applications on mobile devices

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Presenter: Sanjay Challa, Product Manager
LinkedIn | [email protected]

Challa is a senior product manager with 6+ years’ experience. Previously at National Instruments, Challa has had the opportunity to work with a diverse set of technologies and explore a variety of different markets globally.

Brian Kuwahara, Senior Director, Visa

 

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FinDEVr Live: Aerospike Applies High-performance NoSQL for Better Outcomes in Fraud Detection

FinDEVr Live: Aerospike Applies High-performance NoSQL for Better Outcomes in Fraud Detection
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Aerospike, FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco

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aerospike.com | aerospike.com/blog | @aerospikedb

Aerospike_FinDEVr2015_logoAerospike helps businesses achieve the speed, scale, and availability required to manage the real-time transactional workloads of modern, mission-critical applications. The Aerospike high-performance NoSQL database is a key value-store written explicitly to run in RAM and Flash to deliver speed at scale. Our technology, also available in open source, includes tools and packages designed to help developers build next-generation applications without worrying about low-level programming. Gartner named Aerospike a visionary in 2014 Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. Leading innovators in financial services trust Aerospike to power web-scale workloads.

To learn about how internet companies such as adtech, retail, and social have built real-time decision and pricing systems based on stateless compute nodes and a fast, scalable NoSQL data-layer. This new stack allows access to more data (petabytes) and supports, agile, innovative algorithms and libraries that are allowing fintech companies to build vastly better offerings.

Key takeaways:

  • When to use NoSQL vs. SQL
  • How to model data in NoSQL
  • Hardware costs of NoSQL data-layers

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Presenter: Brian Bulkowski, CTO , Co-Founder
LinkedIn | @bbulkow | [email protected]

Bulkowski, co-founder and CTO of Aerospike, has 20-plus years experience designing, developing, and tuning networking systems and high-performance web-scale infrastructures. He founded Aerospike after learning firsthand the scaling limitations of shared MySQL systems and realizing the need for a high-performance database that would empower all developers.

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FinDEVr Live: Interxion Presents a European Fintech Success Story of Quants in a European Cloud

FinDEVr Live: Interxion Presents a European Fintech Success Story of Quants in a European Cloud
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Interxion

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interxion.com | @interxion

Interxion_FinDEVr2015_logoInterxion (NYSE: INXN) is a leading provider of cloud and carrier-neutral co-location data center services in Europe, serving a wide range of customers through 37 data centers, in 11 European countries. Interxion’s uniformly designed, energy-efficient data centers offer customers extensive security and uptime for their mission-critical applications. With more than 500 Connectivity providers and 20 European internet exchanges across its footprint, Interxion has created cloud, content, finance, and connectivity hubs that foster growing customer communities of interest.

Quants in a European cloud
Interxion and Sayula will present a European fintech success story. We start with the co-located foundation infrastructure necessary to meet European demands and progress to Sayula’s open development-framework platform and added open-source components allowing Vontobel to meet their needs for a shared structured-derivatives valuation platform.

Key takeaways:

  • Social Mobile Analytics in the Cloud applied to Quants
  • How to build a shared and modular valuation platform
  • European challenges for Fintech Infrastructure

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Presenters:

Bill Fenick, Strategy & Marketing Director, Interxion

Fenick has two decades-plus of financial services industry experience in data distribution and trading technologies, managed services, co-location and hosting. Prior to Interxion, Fenick worked at Thomson Reuters and Tibco. He holds a doctorate from University of Vienna, a master’s from Webster University in Vienna, and a bachelor’s degree from UCLA.

Daniel Mueri, COO, Sayula

Mueri earned his master’s (Cornell University) and bachelor’s (Rutgers University) degrees in electrical engineering. He has twenty years’ experience in market data and trading systems, and is an innovator and competitor in both his professional and sporting activities.

Cristian Alzati, CTO, Sayula

Alzati has more than twenty years of software development experience in the financial industry. Before founding Sayula, he designed a server-based spreadsheet system that stayed more than 20 years in production at UBS. Alzati holds master’s and engineering degrees from Stanford and a master’s in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon.

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FinDEVr Live: Nexmo APIs Use the Cloud to Decrease Fraud, Secure Transactions, and Protect User Identity

FinDEVr Live: Nexmo APIs Use the Cloud to Decrease Fraud, Secure Transactions, and Protect User Identity
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, Nexmo

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nexmo.com | nexmo.com/blog | @nexmo

Nexmo_FinDEVr2015_logoNexmo is the global cloud communications platform leader providing innovative communication APIs and SDKs for voice, text, messaging and phone-verification services. Nexmo enables applications and enterprises to communicate with their customers reliably and with ease, no matter where in the world they are located. Companies such as Alibaba, Airbnb, LINE, and Viber send millions of messages per month using Nexmo APIs. Nexmo was recognized by analyst firm Gartner as a 2014 Cool Vendor in Communication Service and by Roaming Consulting Company as a Tier-1 A2P SMS Messaging Vendor in 2015.

Using the cloud to decrease fraud, secure transactions, and protect user identity
Online and mobile banking has come of age and consumers today are empowered with dozens of convenient ways to manage their finances online. However, securing transactions, protecting user identity and protecting both the financial institutions and consumers from an ever-increasing risk of fraud has not evolved. Most users do not follow the recommended practices for online security, and the fragmentation of online identities implies most of them repeat passwords across their different identities. Strong authentication in such scenarios is often cumbersome and makes for a bad end-user experience. In this session, we share how Nexmo’s APIs and SDKs can help you increase security, significantly decrease fraud and protect user identity, without compromising the end-user’s experience.

Key takeaways:

  • How phone number-based identifiers, coupled with phone-based verifications, can help businesses easily implement strong authentication to increase security, significantly decrease fraud and protect user identity, without compromising the end-user’s experience.
  • How you can quickly and easily integrate Nexmo’s powerful APIs into most fintech-app flows.
  • How to future-proof your engineering efforts by using best practices to be ready for scale from the start, regardless of the size of your user base.

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Presenter:

Eric Nadalin, CTO
LinkedIn | [email protected]

Nadalin is the CTO and co-founder of Nexmo. He has managed teams in both the payments and messaging spaces for 18 years. His startup, iPIN, was acquired by Valista and integrated with major mobile operators around the globe. Nadalin holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science.

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FinDEVr Live: AppSHIELD SDK from SnoopWall Helps Defend Against Malicious Apps

FinDEVr Live: AppSHIELD SDK from SnoopWall Helps Defend Against Malicious Apps
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015, FinDEVr 2015 San Francisco, SnoopWall

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snoopwall.com | snoopwall.com/blog | @SnoopWallSecure

SnoopWall_FinDEVr2015_logoIt’s the year of mCrime (mobile crime), and all banking apps are easily eavesdropped on by ‘trusted apps’ that actually have malware allowed on iTunes, Google Play, and Microsoft App store. SnoopWall will present a live demo of this ‘breaking into my own banking account’ on mobile using a malicious Flashlight App. Then, you’ll learn about AppSHIELD SDK.

Increase adoption of your mobile app with AppSHIELD SDK
AppSHIELD SDK is the only solution to this problem that works. We’ll show how IBM Trusteer SDK and INAUTH SDK and Arxan are easily circumvented by cyber criminals intending to steal consumer PII. If you see AppSHIELD SDK in action (in 95+ financial institutions), you’ll want it in your banking app to protect your consumers and your brand.

Key takeaways:

  • All mobile banking apps are insecure and hackable
  • Many trusted apps exploit these mBanking vulnerabilities
  • Our AppSHIELD SDK is the only solution to make mBanking apps bulletproof against mCrime

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Presenters:

Gary Miliefsky, CEO
LinkedIn | @Miliefsky | [email protected]

Miliefsky, CEO of SnoopWall, is the inventor of the company’s novel counterveillance technology. He has been extremely active in the INFOSEC arena: He is a member of ISC2.org, CISSP; and is an advisory board member of the Center for the Study of Counter-Terrorism and Cyber Crime at Norwich University and DHS.gov.

Chris Gauthier, VP Engineering
[email protected]

Gauthier is SnoopWall’s VP of engineering. He’s also the chief software architect for SnoopWall and co-inventor of the AppCrusher. He’s an early stage engineering team leader, hands-on coder, and passionate white-hat with a strong, ethical hacking background.

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