Apple products are flawlessly designed and impeccably engineered, and that includes the security tech built into them.
That's because Apple has some of the most highly regarded experts in the business. It's their job to make sure the company's reputation for secure products, free from viruses and such, remains unblemished.
Apple iOS (the iPhone operating system) is extremely secure because there's a lot of complex tech built in. It's so secure that Apple has been rolling some of its features into OS X, the Mac operating system.
Apple actually sent some of its security experts to speak at last year's Black Hat security conference for the first time in company history. No word yet on whether they'll be making an encore this year.
In the meantime, we found some of Apple's security experts that are doing important work behind the scenes to make sure malware doesn't become a problem on Macs, iPhones and iPads.
Ivan Krstić, Core OS Security Architect
Year Joined: 2009
Twitter: @radian
Role At Apple: He's a systems security and architecture expert working on core security for Apple products.
This includes thinking like a hacker and imagine every possible angle they could use in an attack. "I enjoy breaking computers, but I really enjoy making computers hard to break," he explains on his personal blog.
Background: He's the former director of security architecture for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, where he developed the Bitfrost security platform. On his personal blog, he describes himself as a "Linux hipster" and a "big believer in open source."
Shawn Geddis, Enterprise Security Consulting Engineer
Year Joined: 1998
Role At Apple: He helps Apple's enterprise salespeople and customers with product security issues. Also leads Apple's cooperative R&D agreement with the National Security Agency, which began in 2005, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Background: He joined Apple as a senior systems engineer working with federal government and intelligence agencies. He previously spent four years as a systems engineer at DARPA.
Window Snyder, Senior Security Product Manager
Year Joined: 2010
Twitter: @window
Role At Apple: She's leading Apple's efforts to work more closely with security researchers, something it has not done well in the past. She led the Apple security team that gave the company's first-ever talk at the Black Hat security conference last summer.
Background: She spent three years at Microsoft as a senior security strategist, and two and a half years at Mozilla, where her title was "Chief Security Something-or-Other". She also founded her own company, @stake, and sold it to Symantec in 2004 for $49 million.
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