Revision as of 02:25, 24 August 2013

OWASP Global Projects Report

• Project Numbers
  • Active Projects: 132
  • Inactive Projects: 104

• New Project Applications
  • PHP Portscanner
  • OWASP Framework Security Project

• Projects Under Review
  • OWASP Cheat Sheets Project
  • OWASP Java HTML Sanitizer Project
  • Xenotix XSS Exploit Framework
  • OWASP Cornucopia Project
  • OWASP Java Encoder Project
  • Project reviews are on hold until the Technical Advisory group complete and test the updated assessment criteria.

Currently Working On

• Active Project Audit
  • The Project Audit is now complete.
  • I reached out to every project leader listed in our inventory, and asked them to confirm the status of their project.
  • The majority of our Leaders responded, and their project activity status was marked accordingly.
  • Those that did not respond were sent 3 messages before their project was marked inactive.
  • Due to the audit, the number of active OWASP Projects in our inventory went down from 169 to 132.
  • I have also created an OWASP Project Leader Mailing List, and I added all of our confirmed active Leaders to it.
  • The next audit will take place on February 2014.

• Women in AppSec: AppSec USA 2013
  • This week, I met with Dawn-Marie Hutchinson, Head of Information Security at Urban Outfitters.
  • We spoke about her participation in the Women in AppSec Panel.
  • Everything is ready to go on her end, and she will reach out to us closer to the date with any logistical questions she may have.
  • Additionally, the Women in AppSec Team are still putting together a selection committee to help review and select the winning candidates.
  • Women in AppSec Program Selection Criteria: 1st Draft.
  • We plan on beginning our selection process after the 9th of September once the application deadline has passed.
  • Women in AppSec Application Form.
  • The application deadline is Monday, September 09, 2013 at 5pm GMT.
  • The deadline for sponsors is Monday, September 09, 2013, as well.

• Fundraising & Grant Writing Intern
  • I have been working closely with the local event planners for AppSec EU and AppSec LATAM on this.
  • We are sending one project leader to Germany next week to present his project at AppSec EU.
  • I have been helping him with his travel and accommodation logistics for the conference, and he is now set to go.
  • Additionally, I helped source two project leaders for the AppSec LATAM conference.
  • They will be speaking about their projects at the event in October.
  • I am helping them book their travel and accommodation for the event, as well.

• Projects in Salesforce
  • I worked on three grant proposals for three of our projects this week.
  • One was for the OWASP AppSensor Project, the second was for OpenSAMM, and the third was for the OWTF Project.
  • The project teams did an excellent job of putting their proposals and project plans together.
  • The deadline was close, but we managed to get all of them submitted in time.
  • I just want to say thank you to all of the project leaders and contributors that worked on these grant proposals this week.
  • They are very time consuming, and I am grateful we all tackled them on as a team.
  • Please see the Project Funding Updates section below for a more detailed look at each proposal.

• Daily Project based queries and requests
  • This has not changed much since I began the post: questions are very similar in nature.
  • Global AppSec questions.
  • Funding queries.
  • Travel availability.
  • Project based administrative help.
  • Project status information.
  • Several project donation questions.
  • Marketing questions.
  • Grant funding questions.
  • OWASP social media updates.
  • What's happening with projects, questions.

Project Funding Updates

• OWASP OWTF Project: Brucon 5x5 Award

1. Amount: €5,000.00 (Approx. $6,670.00)
2. Status: Awarded. Congratulations, Abraham Aranguren and all involved in the project, for your award.

• OWASP OWTF Grant Proposal

1. Amount: $55,800 USD
2. Status: This proposal is complete, and has been submitted.

• OWASP AppSensor Grant Proposal

1. Amount: $15,000 USD
2. Status: This proposal is complete, and has been submitted.

• OWASP OpenSAMM Grant Proposal

1. Amount: $112,000 USD
2. Status: This proposal is complete, and has been submitted.

• OWASP Guidebooks Proposal

1. Amount: $25,000 USD
2. Status: Awarded. The first payment has been allocated to our project budgets. The second invoice has now been sent to Georgia Tech for payment.
3. OWASP Development Guide Plan
4. OWASP Testing Guide Plan
5. OWASP Code Review Guide Plan

• OWASP ESAPI Grant Proposal

1. Amount: $25,000 USD
2. Status: The ESAPI proposal is still being reviewed.

• OWASP ModSecurity CRS Proposal

1. Amount: $30,000 USD
2. Status: The ModSecurity proposal is still being reviewed.

• Google Grants Proposal

1. Amount: $120,000 USD in Adwords Funds
2. Status: Awarded.
3. Note: There is no link to show the proposal for this grant. There was a form that was submitted to Google, and we did not receive a record of this form.

• European Commission Grant Proposal

1. Amount: €250,000
2. Status: Denied.

• Google Summer of Code

1. Amount: $5,500
2. Status: Awarded

• Projects breakdown:
  • 4 ZAP Projects: $2,000
  • 4 OWTF Projects: $2,000
  • 1 PHP Security Project: $500
  • 1 Hackademics Project: $500
  • 1 Modsecurity Project: $500
  • Note: Big thank you to Fabio Cerullo for coordinating and managing this award.

• Total Funds Awarded: $157,170 USD for 2013.