Difference between revisions of "WASPY Awards 2013"

He's really dedicated to OWASP and his chapter, he spend at least 20 to 25 hours a week organizing, he also attended BlackHat and sat at the official OWASP booth to distribute and inform people about the wonderful organization that OWASP is.

I've never seen a chapter leader active like him, he definately deserve an award."

Lastly, Jack is one of the leaders of the OWASP Mobile project as well the sole developer for the OWASP project GoatDroid.

If anyone deserves my nomination, it's him!"

Under Richard's and Tin's leadership, the chapter grew from an average attendance of ~20-30 security enthusiasts to ~65-100+ at every meeting. OWASP LA conducted meetings religiously every month and the board goes out of their way to screen and invite excellent speakers. In addition, the board does an excellent job communicating the meeting agenda on our OWASP wiki and other social networks besides taking care of the meeting logistics (full catered dinners, sponsorship and more). The quality of the talks is so consistent that even other security organizations in LA (informally) acknowledge that OWASP has the best technical talks about security in town!

The LA Chapter is hosting the upcoming AppSec California, a collaborative conference uniting OWASP Chapters up and down the California coast, from San Diego to the Bay area. World class speakers are already lining up to participate."

His dedication to the field of information security and passion for spreading knowledge has enriched the lives of chapter members."

We started with the chapter meets at very large software development companies in India which started providing visibility to the OWASP as a brand. In 2008, after 2 years of ground work, I announced the very first OWASP conference in the region. Holding a conference for the first time was a challenge but it went very well with participation from around 400 professionals. Our this year's event is lined up for August 2013.

Later, I was promoted by OWASP Foundation as Chair - OWASP India to promote OWASP activities nation wide. Today, we have got 10 active chapters in India and I was instrumental in formation of many new chapters by coordinating with OWASP Foundation US and mentoring the new chapter leads. Our local New Delhi OWASP Mailing list has grown to nearly 800 subscribers which is amongst largest OWASP mailing lists and we have thus far organized 3 OWASP conferences. Good thing has been that OWASP's conferences in India are the largest cyber security events in the region.

I even took an initiative to bring OWASP India to social media by creating LinkedIn profile, Facebook, Twitter and Googleplus pages and am actively maintaining all of these for promotion of local activities. Our LinkedIn and Facebook pages have more than 450 Fans/Followers which I see as a considerable number from a region.

I also facilitated alliances with other not-for-profit organizations to gain further visibility in other communities.

In most of our past events, I invited top brass from Government which helped in gaining more outreach into Government sector. We even included professors from Universities to make students also aware about OWASP. Total 500+ companies have so far participated in our last conferences.

We always kept focus on quality and branding in our events which was lauded by a representative from OWASP Foundation in our 2012 event which is also mentioned in the post-event report.

In these 7 years of my association, I have tried to promote OWASP in the region by all kind of promotional methods online, social media, private meetings, chapter meets, conferences, industry alliances etc.

Wikipedia history, owasp.in website, OWASP Foundation report on 2012 OWASP India event, owasp-delhi mailing list subscriber list can be looked as supporting documents."

"Abbas is doing an excellent work promoting tools and helping the community with his knowledge and inspiration"

- Application Security Verification Standard 2.0 - OWASP Developer Guide 2013 with a lot of others - OWASP Proactive Controls 2013 with Jim Manico - and support of other projects like Coding and Testing Guides. "

"Simon has superbly led the ZAP project through 2012 and into 2013. The project is the most healthy ongoing OWASP project and continues to be updated. It also participated successfully in the GSoC 2012 initiative. Simon has also managed to attract non-coder contributors such as for the translation of the tools content."

-OWASP XSSer Founder and project leader. -GSoC 2013 proposed Mentor -Developer of: XSSer (http://xsser.sf.net) -Developer of: CIntruder (http://cintruder.sf.net) -Developer of: AnonTwi (http://anontwi.sf.net) -Developer of: UFOnet (http://ufonet.sf.net) -Different contributions to free software applications such as: Seeks-Project (http://www.seeks-project.info), Elgg (http://elgg.org), Lorea (http://lorea.org), etc... -OWASP Spain contributor.

Epsylon has talked about OWASP XSSer at both security and not security events around in Europe: Spain, France, Netherlands and Germany. He is involved in some different social projects giving an important technical support and is doing a good job leading some security educational communities.

+ Videos:

XSSer: http://vimeo.com/album/1943305/video/42466699 CIntruder: http://vimeo.com/42918290

+ Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/rootedcon/lord-epsylon-xsser-the-cross-site-scripting-framework-rootedcon-2012 http://www.scribd.com/doc/33492680/XSS-for-Fun-and-Profit"

Google Season of Code Latam OWASP Tour EU OWASP Tour"

• John founded OWASP Sweden in 2007 and stepped down 2013 with a mailing list of 900+ chapter members, combined under the Sweden umbrella.

• John chaired OWASP AppSec Research 2010 in Stockholm with Microsoft and Google as main sponsors and keynote speakers. Managed to gather a great team/committee. The profit funded a big part of the subsequent Global Summit.

• John organized and chaired the Browser Security Track at the Global Summit in Portugal 2011. Round table discussions with Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Adobe, IETF, and some of the world's best web hackers (Mario Heiderich, Stefano di Paola, Gareth Heyes, Eduardo Vela Nava, and David Lindsay).

• John Co-championed the Builders-Breakers-Defenders communities within OWASP, took on the Builders' Developer Outreach, and went on a two-year mission to give appsec talks at developer conferences, not security conferences."

I believe that Fabio has provided amazing value to OWASP's mission, in an altruistic way, without pursuing promotion for himself or any other benefits. He's the most fitting for the "Best mission outreach" award."

"For his effort in the Latam Tour, spreading OWASP brand and awareness in Latin America and the OWASP European Tour!"

He did this next to his OWASP global involvement at various OWASP conferences of one he organized himself and leading the Swedish chapter."