OWASP AppSec Europe 2008 - Belgium

Welcome to THE European OWASP Application Security Conference!

After successful OWASP Conferences in the United States and Europe, we are back in Belgium: 6 tutorials and 2 conference tracks in the historic center of Ghent on May 19-22 2008!

The conference is stuffed with top notch presentations from industry recognised speakers and technical experts on the latest application security risks and trends.

New for AppSec Europe: technical vendor demos and a Capture the Flag!

Conference Location

The historic center of Ghent, Belgium May 19th-22nd.

Tutorial Days: May 19th-20th

Main Conference: May 21st-22nd

Agenda and Presentations - May 21-22

The agenda follows the successful OWASP conference two tracks format, with opening keynotes and presentations in the main auditorium, split tracks in the middle of the day, and closing pannel discussions back in the main auditorium both days. As in the previous editions, the OWASP AppSec Europe 2008 conference will feature a refereed papers track.

} Venue: Aula, Ghent University, Volderstraat 9, 9000 Ghent

Tutorial Days - May 19-20

OWASP arranged for several Application Security tutorials on May 19th-20th, the days prior to the conference. More information about the tutorials are online.

Venue: Monasterium PoortAckere, Oude Houtlei 56, 9000 Gent http://www.monasterium.be/

Evening Social Event - May 21

At every conference we have an evening social event the first night. This allows participants to have some unstructured time to mingle with the other attendees. They are always fun and typically attract about half the conference attendees. This year's event TBD

Accommodations

OWASP arranged for a room block of 20 Executive Deluxe rooms at the NH Gent Belfort at a rate of €199 per night.

NOTE: The above room block is being held through April 11!! After that date, there is no guarantee that rooms at this rate will be available at the NH Gent Belfort.

It is difficult getting rooms at reduced prices, as there is a medical congress around the same time in Ghent. Unfortunately, we were not able to make group rate arrangements at other hotels. However, the following is a list of nearby accommodations that may have availability at lower prices:

• Hotel Monasterium PoortAckere
• Hotel Ibis Gent Centrum Kathedraal
• Hotel Vandervalken Nazareth - on Highway 5 minutes from Ghent
• A list of bed and breakfasts in Ghent
• youth hostels in Ghent

Conference Fees

The conference fees for this conference is :

• Standard: 350 Euros, OWASP Members: 300 Euros, Students: 250 Euros.
• Conference Dinner (Evening of May 21st): 50 Euros
• Conference Tutorials: 825 Euros, Student Fee: 430 Euros
• CONFidence Poland 2008 members get a € 35 reduction on OWASP (see OWASP On a Plane below).
• ISSA, ISACA and L-SEC Members a € 35 reduction.

Note: To save on processing expenses, all fees paid for the OWASP conference are non-refundable. OWASP can accomodate transfers of registrations from one person to another, if such an adjustment becomes necessary.

OWASP on a Plane - CONFidence 2008

This year's CONFidence 2008 will take place on 16-17.05.2008 in Cracow (Poland). They have decided to spend Saturday morning talking about OWASP-related projects. No more excuses: you can attend 2 OWASP events in a row in Europe!

Conference Committee

OWASP Conferences Chair: Dave Wichers - Aspect Security - dave.wichers 'at' owasp.org

2008 EU Planning Committee Chair: Sebastien Deleersnyder - Telindus - seba 'at' owasp.org

Vendor Exhibition Chair: Pravir Chandra - Cigital - chandra 'at' cigital.com

Capture the Flag Chair: Pieter Danhieux - Ernst & Young - pieter.danhieux 'at' be.ey.com

Refereed Papers Chair: Lieven Desmet - KU Leuven - Lieven.Desmet 'at' cs.kuleuven.ac.be

Conference Sponsors

The following organizations are sponsors for this conference. If you are interested in sponsoring an OWASP conference, please contact OWASP at: conferences 'at' owasp.org.

TBD

More information about conference sponsorship is available here.

Day 1 - May 21, 2008
	Track 1:	Track 2:
08:00-09:00	Registration and Coffee
09:00-09:05	Welcome to OWASP AppSec 2008 Conference Dave Wichers
09:05-09:45	Keynote: The Great Information Security Scrap Yard Challenge Mark Curphey
09:45-10:20	Owasp State of the Union Dinis Cruz
10:20-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	The OWASP ESAPI project Dave Wichers	The Web Hacking Incidents Database Project Ofer Shezaf
11:20-12:00	WAFs and WAFEC2 Ivan Ristic	HTML5 security Thomas Rössler
12:00-12:30	The OWASP Orizon Project internals Paolo Perego	Remo presentation (Input Validation) Christian Folini
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:40	How Data Privacy affects Applications and Databases Dirk De Maeyer	refereed papers track
14:40-15:20	NTLM Relay Attacks Eric Rachner	refereed papers track
15:20-15:50	Security in Agile Development Dave Wichers	refereed papers track
15:50-16:10	Break
16:10-17:00	Client-side security pdp	refereed papers track
17:00-18:00	Panel: “tbd” Moderator:tbd Panelists: tbd
18:00-19:00	OWASP Leader Meeting - Organized by Matteo Meucci
19:00-21:00	OWASP Social Gathering: Dinner and Drinks at the Monasterium
Day 2 - May 22, 2008
	Track 1:	Track 2:
08:00-09:00	Coffee
09:00-9:40	Keynote: Software Security Gary McGraw
9:40-10:20	Tour of OWASP projects Dinis Cruz and Dave Wichers
10:20-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Graph Analysis for WebApps: From Nodes to Edges Simon Roses Femerling	The OWASP Education Project Martin Knobloch
11:20-12:00	Dynamic Taint Propagation: Finding Vulnerabilities Without Attacking Brian Chess	Threat Modeling for Application Designers & Architects Shay Zalalichin
12:00-12:30	Scanstud: Evaluating static analysis tools Martin Johns	tbd
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:40	Best Practices Using Web Application Firewalls Alexander Meisel	Google-Hacking and Google-Shielding Amichai Shulman
14:40-15:20	The OWASP Anti-Samy project Jason Li	The Law of Conservation of Bugs Gunnar Peterson
15:20-15:50	Input validation: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Johan Peeters	Security framework is not in the code Sam Reghenzi
15:50-16:10	Break
16:10-17:00	Exploiting Online Games Gary McGraw	SHIELDS: metrics, tools and Internet services to improve security in application developments Eva Coscia
17:00-18:00	Panel: Responsible "tbd" Moderator: tbd Panelists: tbd	Panel: "tbd" Moderator: tbd Panelists: tbd
18:00-18:10	Conference Wrap Up - Dave Wichers, OWASP Conferences Chair