Halle Winkler
Security Engineer, Owner
Politepix
Halle Winkler is a veteran indie software engineer and end-user privacy advocate, who became an offensive security researcher and a consulting application security engineer for Apple platforms. She is a Certified Ethical Hacker, with 12 Apple Security credits spanning all Apple devices, and publishes the [Berlin Bassline Brief](https://buttondown.com/Halle/archive/) security newsletter. Previously, she brought offline speech recognition to iOS with OpenEars. She lives in Kreuzberg, Berlin and secretly adores it, but don't let it get around.
There is no (other) AppSec person: 5 things Swift developers can do against the Vulnpocalypse
Lightning talk
We live in interesting times. Who hasn't read the posts: nation-state supply chain exploits, ClickFix, Mythos and friends, agentic sandbox escapes, security releases with over 100 fixes credited to far more than 100 researchers. Not only are Swift developers not exempt, but the popularity of macOS as a development platform has it moving up the target list disproportionate to its absolute installs, while iOS has always been a juicy target.
Even though we're experiencing a rare case of the future arriving on time, we aren't helpless, and not every countermeasure is difficult. This lightning talk will go over the 5 most consequential steps you can take to shift to a defensive mindset, without getting overwhelmed.