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Speech: ‘From Valencia to Las Vegas. NTP Attacks vs TLS’. José Selvi of NCCGroup.

  • March 28th, 2019
Speech:  ‘From Valencia to Las Vegas. NTP Attacks vs TLS’.  José Selvi of NCCGroup.

On the 4th of April of 2019 at 3.00 p.m. in the ‘Salón de Grados Joan Pelechano’, we will hear a speech on computer security. During this speech we will revise the professional career of the speaker, from his first steps as a student in the Universitat de València until today, giving advice to those who want to focus their career on computer security.

To end with, a research on NTP attacks, which has been already presented in the DEFCON conferences in Las Vegas, will be explained. With these attacks, the user could intercept and manipulate the HTTPS traffic.

Jose Selvi is the Principal Security Consultant en NCC Group, one of the most important security companies.  Over the last 15 years, he has provided with different advanced services important companies in Spain, the United Kingdom and The United States of America, in government industry, telecommunications, financial technology, health, etc.  It is one of the very few people who enjoys the GIAC Security Expert (GSE) certification.  He is also a common speaker at international conferences on security such as DEFCON, BlackHat EU, OWASP AppSec EU, Ekoparty and RootedCon.

NCC Group is a multinational company specialised in cyber security services. Its main office is in Manchester, United Kingdom.  The company offers custody and verification services, cyber security assessment, incident and coroner response and managed services, among others.  NCC Group has more than 1500 high-qualified employees in more than 35 offices distributed around Europe, North-America, Asia-Pacific and Middle East. From them, it offers services to its more than 1.500 global clients, including a great number of bank entities of the United Kingdom, Industry, Telecommunications and important entities of Silicon Valley, among others.  In Spain, NCC Group boasts almost 40 Penetration Testers, with main offices in Madrid and, soon, in Valencia.