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OWASP Minneapolis/St. Paul

Welcome to the Minneapolis/St. Paul chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Robert Sullivan

Participation

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Local News

Next meeting: Tuesday, February 20, 6:00pm at Metro State University, MPLS

Agenda February 20

6:00pm - Food, Introduction and optional sign-in for CISSP credits.

6:10pm - WebGoat 5.0 news, (Robert Sullivan)

6:30pm - Web Application Security Metrics (Gunnar Peterson)

7:30pm - Book Review "19 Deadly Sins of Software Development", (all)

7:45pm - Meeting ideas

7:57pm - Upcoming Events: Secure 360 May 17-18 St. Paul

Speaker Bios

Gunnar Peterson is a Managing Principal at Arctec Group. He is focused on distributed systems security for large mission critical financial, financial exchanges, healthcare, manufacturer, and insurance systems, as well as emerging start ups Mr. Peterson is an internationally recognized software security expert, frequently published, an Associate Editor for IEEE Security & Privacy Journal on Building Security In, an Associate Editor for Information Security Bulletin, a contributor to the SEI and DHS Build Security In portal on software security, and an in-demand speaker at security conferences.

Robert Sullivan is the Twin Cities Chapter leader.

Location:

Technical Building, 1501 Hennepin Ave., room 2305 (This building is immediately South West of the MEC building where we have recently met.) http://www.metrostate.edu/bldgservices/location.html#mpls

Street parking is free after 6 pm. If you get there early it's just a $.25 for a half hour. There is also a ramp which is $5.00.

Directions:

Directions and a building map is here:

http://www.metrostate.edu/bldgservices/location.html#mpls

Street parking is free after 6 pm. If you get there early it's just a $.25 for a half hour. There is also a ramp which is $5.00.

Book Giveaway:

Ray Kaplan is sponsoring a book giveaway Put your business card in the OWASP bucket for a chance to win: Web Services Platform Architecture SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BEL,... By Sanjiva Weerawarana, et al Prentice-Hall 2005

Food:

Lona will bring a sandwich tray, cookies and pop.