Walter Sprenger

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Industrial Engineer STV
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After studying electrical engineering at the intercantonal technical college at Rapperswil, Walter Sprenger worked for NEXUS Telecom AG in Hombrechtikon for two years, developing software on X25 networks for billing and accounting applications. He was exposed to various development platforms running on DEC-VMS, NT and Unix. His tasks involved, among project management also the implementation of components according to specification.

He then moved to cnlab ag in Rapperswil where he directed security reviews of security systems and analysed software source code. The IT security activities included scans over distributed heterogeneous networks for important ISPs and several Swiss cantons. In addition, he investigated a banking application regarding security in a multi-staged process. Parallel to his work, Walter Sprenger completed a postgraduate course at the Management College St.Gallen/Zurich with the specialisation in business leadership.

As a co-founder of Compass Security, Walter Sprenger has worked as a security analyst and Managing Director since February 1999. Since the introduction of forensic services, he is course instructor in the Compass course "Evidence Lab". In addition, he teaches at the Technical High School Rapperswil and, as a tutor, assists two term projects and a diploma project per year.

News

HTML5 Web Security
12/7/11 - HTML5 Security Research Report

Review BlackHat / Defcon 2011
11/8/11 - This year, as every year, two security analysts of Compass Security AG participated in the BlackHat and Defcon in Las Vegas.

Oracle RDC Onsite XSS Vulnerability
10/18/11 - Compass Security has found a vulnerability in ORACLE RDC ONSITE.

Course Schedule - New iPhone & iPad Hands-On course
10/6/11 - The new iPhone & iPad Compass course will be held in Switzerland for the first time

it-sa 2011: Compass Live-Hacking at IT-SA 2011 in Nürnberg
9/29/11 - Meet Compass at IT-SA Messestand in Halle 12, Stand 226. We will present Live-Hackign with newest iPhone and Mobile Devices.