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Due to Thanksgiving holiday, November meeting will be held on the fourth Monday instead of the usual third, namely on <b>Monday November 26th 6pm</b> at Bryant & Stratton College.
 
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:'''Bio''' Steve Buck is a software engineer working for Thomson West in Rochester, NY.  He has been creating web applications professionally for 12 years with various software development firms around the country.  He has worked with a large number of different application servers and databases and has spent a fair amount of time as a UNIX system administrator as well.
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  '''Rochester Security Summit'''
 
  '''Rochester Security Summit'''

Revision as of 14:30, 5 November 2007

Welcome to the OWASP Rochester Local Chapter

Welcome to the local Rochester chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Ralf Durkee

Participation

OWASP chapter meetings are free and open to anyone interested in application security. We encourage members to give presentations on specific topics and to contribute to the local chapter by sharing their knowledge with others. Prior to participating with OWASP please review the Chapter Rules.

The Rochester chapter has two mailing lists: one for announcements and one for general discussion. The announce list is for official communications (e.g meeting announcements, web site updates, etc). The discussion list is for general participation and everyone is encouraged to post. The announce mailing list can be found here. The discussion mailing list can be found here. You can also review the announce and discussion e-mail archives to see what folks have been talking about. Please make sure you are subscribed to announce to receive any last minute meeting info.

Local Officers

Meeting Dates & Location

Dates: The third Monday of every month, starting at 6:00 PM.

Types of events: Formal meeting (featuring a presentation) in odd numbered months, informal event (open forum with beer and wings) in even numbered months

Locations:

  • Formal meetings at 1225 Jefferson Rd, Rochester, NY 14623 (near I-390) Google Maps
  • Beer and wings at Mac Gregor's Grill & Tap Room, 300 Jefferson Rd, NY 14623 Google Maps

Formal meeting space is graciously offered by Bryant & Stratton College Enter the Frontier Commons plaza, near the Post Office. Towards the right, rear of the plaza is the PSC (Professional Skills Center) door, which is to the left of the main Bryant & Stratton entrance door. There will be a sign on the door indicating the room in which we will meet.

Please note that for informal meetings at Mac Gregor's, everybody needs to pay for their own food and drinks.

November Meeting Details

Due to Thanksgiving holiday, November meeting will be held on the fourth Monday instead of the usual third, namely on Monday November 26th 6pm at Bryant & Stratton College.

Presenter Steve Buck
Topic Sanitizing Database Inputs Using Parameterized Queries
We will spend an evening discussing why database inputs need to be sanitized from web forms, how to create parameterized calls in Java accessing any RDBMS (SQL Server will be used for demonstration purposes). Finally we will give an example of what can happen when database queries are not sanitized as a live demonstration of a SQL injection attack.
Bio Steve Buck is a software engineer working for Thomson West in Rochester, NY. He has been creating web applications professionally for 12 years with various software development firms around the country. He has worked with a large number of different application servers and databases and has spent a fair amount of time as a UNIX system administrator as well.
Steve is a graduate of the Computer Science program at SUNY Brockport.
Rochester Security Summit
Oct 3-4 2007 - Rochester OWASP & Web App Secc Presentations at Rochester Security Summit 2007
The Rochester OWASP chapter in partnership with other Rochester institutions organized the second annual Rochester Security Summit Oct 3-4 during National Cyber Security Awareness Month. We had an awesome lineup of nationally recognized technical speakers.
This year included several OWASP and Web App Sec presentations:
Rohyt Belani of Intrepidus Group - Phishing 2.0: Beyond Identity Theft
Andrea Cogliati - Security in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Ralph Durkee - 2007 OWASP Top 10 & Live Web Application Attacks
James Kist - Cross Site Scripting Attacks and Defenses

Visit Rochester Security Summit Site for details.

Past Presentations

September 2007 2007 OWASP Top 10 Most Critical Web Application Security Vulnerabilities, by Ralph Durkee PowerPoint

October 2006 The first of the OWASP top ten: unvalidated input, by Steve Buck. PowerPoint

April 2006 PGP: Encryption for e-mail and web applications, by Ralph Durkee PDF

February 2006 Identity Theft, Phishing and Pharming, by Danny Allan PDF

February 2006 Secure e-mail, by Thomas Bullinger PDF

January 2006 PCI Compliance, by Pat Massey, Ralf Durkee, Maureen Baran PDF

September 2005 Two Factor Authentication for Java Applications with Client Certificates, by Ralf Durkee PDF Open Office

April 2005 Avoiding Backend Exploitation of Mail Forms, by Max Kessler PowerPoint Open Office

March 2005 Bringing Two-Factor Authentication to Web Applications, by Michael Starks PowerPoint Open Office

February 2005 Insecure Storage, by Chris Karr PowerPoint

January 2005 Access Control and Session Mgmnt, by Steve Buck PowerPoint Open Office

November 2004 Intro to OWASP by Ralf Durkee. Demonstration of SQL Injection attack and prevention, by Paul Cupo PowerPoint