Arni Hardarson

Arni Hardarson

Co-Founder / Offensive Security Lead
Neonix Security

Arni Hardarson is Co-Founder and Offensive Security Lead at Neonix Security. He has more than 20 years of experience delivering offensive security work across Australia and internationally, including red teaming, adversary emulation, vulnerability research, and macOS security research.

He has led large-scale assurance programs and built offensive security capabilities in enterprise environments. His work focuses on practical security testing, offensive research, and understanding how modern platforms enforce trust, with a particular interest in macOS internals and security controls. He helps organisations improve resilience against real-world threats through hands-on testing and research-led security advice.

The new control plane of macOS security

Arni Hardarson
2026-10-16 11:45 am
2026-10-16 12:25 pm
Think Tank 2

Modern macOS trust decisions are enforced through a distributed web of code-signing, entitlements and policy daemons most defenders treat as isolated controls.

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