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Rochester
Welcome to the OWASP Rochester Local Chapter
Welcome to the local Rochester chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Ralph Durkee
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Participation
OWASP chapter meetings are free and open to anyone interested in application security. We encourage members to give presentations on specific topics and to contribute to the local chapter by sharing their knowledge with others. Prior to participating with OWASP please review the Chapter Rules.
The Rochester chapter has two mailing lists: one for announcements and one for general discussion. The announce list is for official communications (e.g meeting announcements, web site updates, etc). The discussion list is for general participation and everyone is encouraged to post. The announce mailing list can be found here. The discussion mailing list can be found here. You can also review the announce and discussion e-mail archives to see what folks have been talking about. Please make sure you are subscribed to announce to receive any last minute meeting info.
Local Officers
- President: Ralph Durkee
- Vice President: Andrea Cogliati
- Treasurer: Andrea Cogliati
- Secretary: Appointed by Event Coordinator at each meeting.
- Event Coordinator: Andrea Cogliati
- Communications and Chapter OWASP Evangelist: Lou Leone
- Webmaster: Duane Peifer
- Mail List Administrator: Duane Peifer
Meeting Dates & Location
Dates: The third Monday of every month, starting at 6:00 PM.
Types of events: Formal meeting (featuring a presentation) in odd numbered months, informal event (open forum with beer and wings) in even numbered months
Locations:
- Formal meetings at 1225 Jefferson Rd, Rochester, NY 14623 (near I-390) Google Maps
- Beer and wings at Mac Gregor's Grill & Tap Room, 300 Jefferson Rd, NY 14623 Google Maps
Formal meeting space is graciously offered by Bryant & Stratton College Enter the Frontier Commons plaza, near the Post Office. Towards the right, rear of the plaza is the PSC (Professional Skills Center) door, which is to the left of the main Bryant & Stratton entrance door. There will be a sign on the door indicating the room in which we will meet.
Please note that for informal meetings at Mac Gregor's, everybody needs to pay for their own food and drinks.
Joint Meeting with LUGOR in September
We'll have a joint meeting with Linux User Group of Rochester on September 17th from 7pm to 9pm on RIT Campus, room #70-1400.
Ralph Durkee will deliver a presentation about Apache Web Server and Web App Firewall w Mod_security.
Rochester Security Summit 2009
The fourth annual Rochester Security Summit will held be October 28th and 29th. Check back for more details in the coming weeks.
Past Events
- Oct 29-30 2008 - Rochester Security Summit 2008
- The Rochester OWASP chapter in partnership with other Rochester institutions is organizing the third annual Rochester Security Summit Oct 29-30 during National Cyber Security Awareness Month. This year we'll have a full day dedicated to application security and we are are working to bring to Rochester the best national acclaimed speakers.
Visit Rochester Security Summit Site for details.
Past Presentations
September OWASP 2009 Securing Apache Web Servers with Mod Security & CIS Benchmark by Ralph Durkee PPT Open Office
May OWASP 2009 Key Management - One Perspective by Lou Leone PPT
May IEEE 2009 Introduction to OWASP, presented by Ralph Durkee and Andrea Cogliati PPT
January 2009 Paranoid Programming Practices, by Lou Leone and Aaron Witt PPT
May 2008 Database Encryption, by Ralf Durkee PPT
January 2008 SQL Injection and Dynamic SQL, by Andrea Cogliati ZIP
September 2007 2007 OWASP Top 10 Most Critical Web Application Security Vulnerabilities, by Ralph Durkee PowerPoint
October 2006 The first of the OWASP top ten: unvalidated input, by Steve Buck. PowerPoint
April 2006 PGP: Encryption for e-mail and web applications, by Ralph Durkee PDF
February 2006 Identity Theft, Phishing and Pharming, by Danny Allan PDF
February 2006 Secure e-mail, by Thomas Bullinger PDF
January 2006 PCI Compliance, by Pat Massey, Ralf Durkee, Maureen Baran PDF
September 2005 Two Factor Authentication for Java Applications with Client Certificates, by Ralf Durkee PDF Open Office
April 2005 Avoiding Backend Exploitation of Mail Forms, by Max Kessler PowerPoint Open Office
March 2005 Bringing Two-Factor Authentication to Web Applications, by Michael Starks PowerPoint Open Office
February 2005 Insecure Storage, by Chris Karr PowerPoint
January 2005 Access Control and Session Mgmnt, by Steve Buck PowerPoint Open Office
November 2004 Intro to OWASP by Ralf Durkee. Demonstration of SQL Injection attack and prevention, by Paul Cupo PowerPoint
