Revision as of 20:49, 6 July 2009

OWASP Los Angeles

Welcome to the Los Angeles chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Cassio Goldschmidt

Participation

OWASP Foundation (Overview Slides) is a professional association of global members and is open to anyone interested in learning more about software security. Local chapters are run independently and guided by the Chapter_Leader_Handbook. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related software security topic you would like to present on.

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Upcoming Chapter Meetings

   Meeting Location
   Symantec Corporation
   900 Corporate Pointe
   Culver City, CA 90230
   Laguna Conference Room

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 7:30PM

• Lock picks, BumpKeys, and Hackers oh my! How secure is your application?

This talk will focus on physical security controls, weaknesses, and counter measures. I will present on what lock picking is, how bump keys work, and ways to subverting electronic locks. We will also go into what are good controls, and what is often overlooked when designing secure environments. Many of the topics covered apply to application security, as the methods for securing these devices is by using obscurity. In the application world with automated tools and scripts, this does not hold water for very long.

David M. N. Bryan, NetSPI has 10 years of computer security experience, including consulting, engineering, and administration. He has performed security assessment projects in the healthcare, nuclear, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, banking and educational sectors.
As an active participant in the information security community, he volunteers at DEFCON, where he designs and implements the firewall and network for what is said to be the most hostile network environment in the world. This network allows speakers, press, vendors, and others to gain access to the Internet, without being hacked. In his spare time he and his wife run the local DEFCON group, DC612 and participate in the Minneapolis OWASP chapter.

Thursday, August 20th, 2009 7:30PM

• The Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM)

The Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) (http://www.opensamm.org) is a flexible and prescriptive framework for building security into a software development organization. Covering more than typical SDLC-based models for security, SAMM enables organizations to self-assess their security assurance program and then use recommended roadmaps to improve in a way that's aligned to the specific risks facing the organization. Beyond that, SAMM enables creation of scorecards for an organization's effectiveness at secure software development throughout the typical governance, development, and deployment business functions. Scorecards also enable management within an organization to demonstrate quantitative improvements through iterations of building a security assurance program. This workshop will introduce the SAMM framework and walk through useful activities such as assessing an assurance program, mapping an existing organization to a recommended roadmap, and iteratively building an assurance program. Time allowing, additional case studies will also be discussed. SAMM is an open and free project and has recently been added under the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation.

Pravir Chandra is Director of Strategic Services at Fortify Software and works with clients on software security assurance programs. Pravir is recognized for his expertise in software security, code analysis, and his ability to strategically apply technical knowledge. Prior to Fortify, he was a Principal Consultant affiliated with Cigital and led large software security programs at Fortune 500 companies. Pravir Co-Founded Secure Software, Inc. and was Chief Security Architect prior to its acquisition by Fortify. He recently created and led the Open Software Assurance Maturity Model (OpenSAMM) project with the OWASP Foundation, leads the OWASP CLASP project, and also serves as member of the OWASP Global Projects Committee. Pravir is author of the book Network Security with OpenSSL.

Would you like to speak at an OWASP Los Angeles Meeting?

Call for Papers (CFP) is NOW OPEN ~ to submit educational topic for upcoming meeting please submit your BIO and talk abstract via email to Cassio Goldschmidt. When accepted it will be required to use the following powerpoint OWASP Template

This page provides a list of previous presentations conducted at the Los Angeles Chapter.

Los Angeles Chapter Leader

• Cassio Goldschmidt