Ivan Bütler

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B.S. in Electrical Engineering
Industrial Engineer STV
CEO
 
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After completing his degree in Electrical Engineering at the Technical College of Rapperswil focusing on computer science, control technology, electronics, energy engineering, and motion technology, Ivan Buetler worked for 2 years in St.Gallen at AGI Service, a company which provides services for banks. He provided plans for high-availability Unix and NT server systems including, among other things, a platform for the stock market and foreign exchange dealers based on Reuters, Bloomberg and FIMS (Telekurs).

Afterwards, while working for 3r security engineering ag/Entrust Technologies, Ivan supported security consultants in technical matters, analysed clients' technical problems, local network and computer systems throughout Europe. This security work included penetration tests, security reviews, the development of secure architectures, Internet and Intranet security, as well as security solutions for e-Commerce. In particular, he was involved in the cross-certification of the Canadian Entrust PKI with Europe. During these activities he completed post-graduate studies at the Management School of St.Gallen/Zurich in Business Management.


Ivan co-founded Compass Security AG in February 1999 where he works as a security analyst and Managing Director. Additionally, Ivan works as a teacher with both the HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences.


Talks - Papers - Speeches

Year Month Conference / Item Description
2010 May CLX.CustomerDay Cyber-Mafia is striking: Hacking-Attacks - Live Demo
2010 February Weissbuch-Seminar, Zurich Underground Market - Cyber Crime
2009 November IT Underground, Warsaw Web Hacking Kung-Fu
2009 June Swiss IT Leadership Forum in Nice (France) Cyber Underground - Cyber Crime Market
2009 April Swiss Cyber Storm II Wargame Organization at University of Applied Science, Rapperswil
2008 Sept. Swiss Open Systems User Group Open Source Web Application Firewall
2008 Aug. BlackHat Las Vegas
Video
Smart Card (In) Security - APDU Debugging

 

News

Compass invites to the Security Event 2010
6/7/10 - On Thursday, September 09, 2010 Compass Security AG organise their annual "Compass Event". For this seminar the ICT security service provider invites customers and other interested persons to the auditorium of the HSR University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil / Switzerland. From 08:30 to 17:00 the participants benefit from the latest findings and experiences about ITC security in the frame of presentations, Live-Hacking demonstrations and speeches. A red-hot topic is brought up by Nicolas Seriot in his guest speech "iPhone-Hacking".

New at Compass: "FileBox" as an Appliance
5/25/10 - Compass Security AG have further developed their Web based transfer solution "File Box" and launched an appliance. Companies keep thus complete control of their data as the appliance is located on their own premises. The multitenant solution addresses mainly target groups who are dependent on a safe data transfer with customers or business partners, such as banks, insurance companies, chartered accountants, trustees, lawyers or medical doctors.

Hacking-Lab Remote: Rent a Professional IT Security Lab
4/13/10 - For imparting knowledge on IT security topics such as the OWASP TOP 10, OSSTMM and other attacking respectively defence measures in a practical way, high schools and companies no longer need to invest in their own security lab. Using the Hacking-Lab of Compass Security AG users have access via Internet to an interactive lab environment. The ICT security service provider makes students and employees more familiar with current cyber threats, attacking strategies and defence measures.

Evening event of ISSS on "Cyber Crime in Switzerland"
2/23/10 - Ivan Bütler, Compass managing director, is organizing the "1st ISSS St Gall conference" together with Dr. Lukas Ruf. On Thursday, April 29, 2010, interested people are meeting in order to gain an up-to-date overview in the field of computer crime an to become familiar with the developments.

Compass hacks live at CeBIT
2/22/10 - Marco Di Filippo, Regional Director Germany of Compass Security AG takes on the role of the hacker at CeBIT and puts modern technologies to the test. On the CeBIT platforms of the media partner Network Computing and of the anti virus specialist Avira he is going to x-ray data centers and mobile devices such as iPhone, Blackberry, etc. regarding their safety compliance.