Black Hat conferencefounder Jeff Moss slammed Apple last week for
pulling out at the last minute.
Apple’s engineering team was to give a presentation, but its
marketing department pulled the talk at the last minute.
Jeff Moss
criticised Apple for being too insular and not working with the
security industry. Its "love affair" with its consumer customer
base allowed it to act this way, Moss said.
“They don’t think enterprise, they don’t think government. They
think consumer. Consumers don’t really care about or value
security, or how to make risk decisions," said Moss.
"But the
people that run corporate IT do need certain
functions that Apple doesn’t provide. They need quick response
times,” he added.
He said the comany would have to change as it pushed into the
enterprise sector.
Gartner said the Apple iPhone 2.0 was ready for enterprise use.
Gartner said the iPhone met its minimum requirements.
Gartner also said the iPhone can be wiped clean via a standard
instruction from Microsoft Exchange. The analyst said this can
force the use of a complex password if the alphanumeric setting is
checked on the Exchange 2003 SP2 or 2007 administrative
console.
Moss has suffered other
vendor-related controversies in the past. In 2005, workers had
to rip a presentation about
Cisco IOS vulnerabilities out of the conference programme by
hand at the last minute on the supplier's instruction. The speaker
gave the presentation anyway, sparking a lawsuit from
Cisco. In 2001,
Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested at Defcon for a presentation that
revealed holes in Adobe’s DRM.
On Friday Apple said it had nothing to add.