@Radar: Highly Accurate Altitude Detection && Secure iOS Development

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Special thanks to Radar for hosting us this month.
Food and drink will be provided!
There will be a raffle for Radar AirPods for in-person attendees!

Welcome to yet another great evening of learning and networking!
This event will be held both in person and online, and for the first time (as far as we can recall) on a Thursday!

Agenda:
• 6:00 PM - Doors Open (in-person attendees). Don't forget your ID!
• 6:30 PM - Welcome (in-person and Zoom attendees)
• 6:35 PM - First Talk: The Bar is on Which Floor? Improving Altitude and Floor Detection
• 7:05 PM - Community Announcements
• 7:15 PM - Second Talk: Beyond the Sandbox: Secure iOS Development in an Era of New Security Standards
• 7:45 PM - Networking
• 8:30 PM - Doors close. Regroup at a bar nearby (Old Town Bar)

First Talk Description:
• The Bar is on Which Floor? Improving Altitude and Floor Detection
Liam Meier, Director of Engineering at Radar

iOS can estimate a device's altitude. In real world conditions, this estimate is far less accurate and reliable than horizontal (lat/lng) positioning, which makes the question "which floor is someone on?" hard to answer. Leveraging little known sensors in mobile phones and clever correction techniques enabled by at-scale deployments, we're able to determine mobile device altitude and floor level with markedly higher accuracy than what's available today.

Liam Meier is Director of Engineering at Radar, where he leads the team behind Radar’s leading geolocation platform and mobile SDKs, deployed on over 300 million devices. Previously, he founded and built products at early-stage startups. In a past life, he studied galaxy formation under the influence of dark matter — helpful training for making sense of noisy sensor data.

Second Talk Description:
• Beyond the Sandbox: Secure iOS Development in an Era of New Security Standards
Mike Sanderson

Even as mobile apps have come to handle sensitive medical, financial, and personal information, the practices of secure mobile app development has remained a patchwork of received wisdom and platform constraints, with developers who want to practice secure development are often unclear on how to do so or what that even means.

In the past few years, leaders in security standards have increasingly seen the need to for digital security incorporate secure coding earlier into the software development process, known as "shift left," and included references to systematic cybersecurity standards.

This talk will look at how secure mobile app development fits into the larger security picture, including the security of the iOS platform and the MacOS platform apps are developed on. The talk will look at sources for guidance for secure iOS software development, in particular the OWASP flagship Mobile App Security project and other OWASP efforts. The idea will be to start to equip iOS developers not only to make good decisions but to systematically identify best practices and understand how they fit into the larger security picture.

Mike Sanderson is a writer and computer programmer who has worked on iOS apps full-time since 2013, including working with a launch partner of Apple Wallet in iOS 9, working on a secure message app at scale, and independently finding and reporting an authentication-bypass bug on a medical iOS app, which was confirmed. Recently, Mike has provided comments on several National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) draft papers related to cybersecurity.

Location:
111 5th Avenue
Floor 12
New York, NY 10003

Please enter through the main lobby on 5th avenue, next to H&M. Then head to the 12th floor.

What you need to bring:
ID

When to arrive:
Doors open at 6:00pm ET
Event will start around 6:30pm ET

Zoom link:
You can join virtually here (link will be provided the day of the event).
Note we will start the Meetup around 6:30pm ET

Will food and drinks be provided?
Yes! Thank you Radar!

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