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Boston
Welcome to the OWASP Boston Chapter
To find out more about the Boston chapter, please send an email to Jim Weiler or just join the OWASP Boston mailing list.
We meet the FIRST WEDNESDAY of EVERY MONTH, 6:30 to 9 pm.
Everyone is welcome to come to any meeting, there is no signup or joining criteria, just come if it sounds interesting. Feel free to sign up to the OWASP Boston mailing list. This list is very low volume (2 - 3 emails/month); it is used to remind people about each monthly meeting, inform about local application security events and special chapter offers.
Information and an RSS feed for meeting updates about this and other Boston area user groups can be found at Boston User Groups.
Location
The Boston OWASP Chapter meets the FIRST WEDNESDAY of every month, 6:30 pm at the Microsoft offices at the Waltham Weston Corporate Center, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA.
From Rt. 128 North take exit 26 toward Waltham, East up the hill on Rt. 20. From Rt 128 South take exit 26 but go around the rotary to get to 20 East to Waltham. Follow signs for Rt. 117 (left at the second light). When you get to 117 turn left (West). You will cross back over Rt. 128. Jones Rd. (look for the Waltham Weston Corporate Center sign) is the second left, at a blinking yellow light, on Rt. 117 going west about 0.1 miles from Rt. 128 (I95). The office building is at the bottom of Jones Rd. Best parking is to turn right just before the building and park in the back. Knock on the door to get the security guard to open it. The room is MPR C.
Reviews
Next Meeting
Next Meeting -
Tool Talk - Jim Weiler WebGoat and Crosssite Request Forgeries
In keeping with our theme of 'experience, not just technology', Danny Allen will be talking about exploits they've seen and software changes they've seen that make a difference.
Main Speaker: Danny Allan; Director, Security Research, Watchfire
Topic: Exploitation of the OWASP Top 10: Attacks and Strategies
We often talk about the vulnerabilities that make up the OWASP Top 10, but sometimes we lack the awareness of how the true exploitations actually take place. A vulnerability is a very different thing from an exploit. This presentation will demonstrate some of the more advanced exploitation techniques we are seeing around the OWASP Top 10 and how the Web 2.0 world has opened a world of opportunity. We will also discuss some of the small changes an organization can do to be more effective in securing online software. It's easy to talk about secure software, but it's often hard to know where to start. What are the simple steps we have witnessed that have made the largest difference?”
Pizza will be provided by Watchfire
Past Meeting Notes
Feb 2005
Application Security Inc. PowerPoint slides for the Anatomy of a Database Attack.
March 2005
Joe Stagner: Microsoft Let's talk about Application Security
April 2005
Jonathan Levin - Of Random Numbers
Jothy Rosenberg, Founder and CTO: Service Integrity - Web Services Security
May 2005
Patrick Hynds, CTO: Critical Sites - Passwords - Keys to the Kingdom
June 2005
Arian Evans, National Practice Lead, Senior Security Engineer: Fishnet Security Overview of Application Security Tools
July 2005
Mark O'Neill, CTO: Vordel - Giving SOAP a REST? A look at the intersection of Web Application Security and Web Services Security
September 2005
Dr. Herbert Thompson, Chief Security Strategist: SecurityInnovation - How to Break Software Security
October 2005
Prateek Mishra, Ph.D. Director, Security Standards and Strategy: Oracle Corp Chaiman of the OASIS Security Services (SAML) Technical Committee - Identity Federation : Prospects and Challenges
Ryan Shorter, Sr. System Engineer: Netcontinuum - Application Security Gateways
November 2005
Robert Hurlbut, Independent Consultant Threat Modeling for web applications
December 2005
Paul Galwas, Product Manager: nCipher Enigma variations: Key Management controlled
January 2006
David Low, Senior Field Engineer: RSA Practical Encryption
February 2006
Ron Ben Natan; Guardium CTO Database Security: Protecting Identity Information at the Source
March 2006
Mateo Meucci; OWASP Italy Anatomy of 2 web attacks
Tom Stracener; Cenzic Web Application Vulnerabilities
April 2006
Dennis Hurst; SPI Dynamics: A study of AJAX Hacking
Jim Weiler; OWASP Boston: Using Paros HTTP proxy, part 1. first meeting with all demos, no powerpoints!
May 2006
June 2006
Imperva - Application and Database Vulnerabilities and Intrusion Prevention
Jim Weiler - Using Paros Proxy Server as a Web Application Vulnerability tool
September 2006
Mike Gavin, Forrester Research: Web Application Firewalls
November 2006
January 2007
Dave Low, RSA the Security Division of EMC: encryption case studies
March 2007
Jeremiah Grossman, CTO Whitehat Security: Top 10 Web Application Hacks of 2006
