Global Education Committee

About the Global Education Committee

The Global Education Committee was created during the OWASP EU Summit in Portugal 2008. The primary purpose of the Global Education Committee is: to work with the OWASP Education Project to provide educational materials for both internal and external users, develop liaisons with educational institutions worldwide.

Mission

Provide awareness, training and educational services to corporate, government and educational institutions on application security.

Vision

Make OWASP educational material globally available as a well known resource in easily consumable form mapped to a framework tied specifically to user roles and responsibilities

Committee Members

Chairs: Martin Knobloch (Netherlands) and Kuai Hinjosa (U.S.)

• Mano Paul (U.S.)
• Eduardo Neves (Brazil)
• Cecil Su (Singapore)
• Fabio Cerullo (Ireland)
• Andrzej Targosz (Poland)
• Nishi Kumar (U.S.)
• Sebastien Gioria (France)

Monthly Report Format

Date of last update: July 28th Updated by: Martin Knobloch

Accomplishments for this Month

• Updates on the CTF and Education project (and project wiki's)
• Getting in contact with universities

Planned for Next Month

• Update GEC targets and Committee wiki
• Update GEC committee members
• OWASP Education Committee namely: development and packaging of OWASP Training materials and the development of the ‘OWASP Academies concept

Issues/Risks/Challenges

• Finding new active members
• Refocusing on less targets

How to join this committee

Join our mailing list

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Scheduled Meetings

The next meeting is scheduled for August 25th

The Global Education Committee Meetings take place via conference call every fortnightly Wednesday!

Meeting times: 
         3:00 p.m. @ Austin, Texas 
         4:00 p.m. @ New York 
         7:00 p.m. @ Brasil 
        10:00 p.m. @ Netherlands
         4:00 a.m. @ Singapore (following day)

Agenda

• August 25th 2010

All meeting agenda's and notes are on the GEG Meetings page

Targets (DRAFT)

Below you can find the timeline, what has to be achieved by when. All tasks must be SMART!

Update July 2010	Task	Deadline	Type	Status	Description	Who
Finished	Categorize (Organization) of educational materials	N/A	Documentation	Done	Categorize / Organization of the educational materials for audience by roles and responsibilities/technologies and use the summit workshop notes.	Martin
Package has been created for the OWASP Loondon Training	Train the trainers (Teach the teachers)	Q1/Q2/Q3/Q4 2009	Delivery	in progress	Develop a train the trainer program that will train trainers to deliver training on OWASP related material.	Fabio / Nishi
Launch	Create an "official" GEC course for universityl	Q1/Q2 2011	Delivery	Planning	Develop an official OWASP course based on the OWASP projects and other donate/sponsors course to help university/faculty adopt OWASP in their diploma.	Sébastien
Died	Create an online assessment and training portal	Q2/Q3/Q4 2009	Delivery	Planning	Develop an OWASP assessment and training portal that end users can use to gauge their knowledge on OWASP concepts and training providers can use to promote their training offerings.	Mano/Fabio
on hold	OWASP Boot Camp Project	Proposal: February 2009 Final: Oktober 2009 at OWASP AppSec US 2009	Delivery	wainting on project content	OWASP Boot Camp about the OWASP projects, to deliver a Boot Camp presentation should be one of the criteria to get an alpha status as project	Martin
active, CTF hold at OWASP AppSec-EU	OWASP CTF event	OWASP AppSec Conferences	Delivery	Done	Develop an OWASP Capture the Flag contest that could be easy use for OWASP conferences.	Martin
on hold	Speakers Bureau Project	TBD	Delivery	started	List of speakers, Name, Bio, Topics, History Speakers in conferences (OOTM ask for funds on this)/summit	Martin
Died	Marketing efforts	Q4 2009	Awareness Services	Started	Select material.	Eduardo
Hibernating, update requested	Internationalization of the training materials	Q4 2009	Awareness Services	Startes	Select material for translation services for highly spoken languages	Eduardo
busy, just al darn long lasting task	Education material	TBD	Training & Educational Services	started	All projects should be summoned to create educational material (training service) 1) Each Projects --> Documents (help), Tool, Training; Live CD (Portable)	Martin
Uncertain, update requested	Educational Academic Services	TBD	Training & Educational Services	3 Universities already in contact with and planning OWASP events to participate in.	Incorporate OWASP into the following top 5 Universities, within the next 12 months by introducing OWASP training and education resources at University's events. 1) New York University 2) Cornell University 3) Princeton University 4) University of Minnesota 5) Columbia University As a result of these initiative we would hope to see: 1) Confirming participation at arranged events 2) Asking Universities to recognize they are using our resources by allowing us to place their names in wiki pages such as http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Top_Ten_Project 3) University faculty, staff and students participate in local and international events/meetings 4) University faculty, staff and students contribute to OWASP projects	Kuai Hinojosa, Andrzej

Proposal (DRAFT)

Categorize (Organization) of educational materials

Objective: Categorize / Organize educational material, estyle the Education Project website.

Activities/Deadline:

• Categorize education material according to the CLASP roles
  
• Group material into management-ish, student-ish, technical-ish
  

Benefits
Target specific demographic (managers, students...) Provide easy access to education material. Efficient categorization of education materials.

Train the trainers (Teach the teachers)

Objective: Develop a train the trainer program that will train trainers to deliver training on OWASP related material.

Activities/Deadline:

1. Develop a criteria to identify and approve trainers / Q1 2009
2. Identify pertinent OWASP related material that will be included in the training kit / Q2 2009. This is dependent on the education project organizing material.
3. Create a training toolkit with pre-built presentation and training materials, assessments etc. / Q3 2009
4. Conduct train the trainer sessions (remote or in-person) / Q4 2009

Benefits: The training kit and trained trainers will be available resources promoting OWASP in local events worldwide.

Create an online assessment and training portal

Objective: Develop an OWASP assessment and training portal that end users can use to gauge their knowledge on OWASP concepts and training providers can use to promote their training offerings.

Activities/Deadline:

1. Generate OWASP assessment items (can use the testing guide and other sources) / Q2-Q3 2009
2. Develop an assessment portal to deliver taking of assessments with robust reporting by knowledge area / Q4 2009
3. Develop a training portal to allow training providers to publish and promote their training offerings / Q4 2009

This can be developed as a summer of code project but is not a requirement.

Benefits: Assessments that can be offered in OWASP events and other conferences to users will increase OWASP awareness. The portal can become the link between trainers and trainees and will eventually help in increasing the awareness and knowledge of application security in the industry.

OWASP Boot Camp Project

Objective
To deliver a Boot Camp session which would lead to be one of the main criteria to produce alpha status projects

Activities/Deadline:

Benefits

OWASP CTF event

Objective Generate a Capture The Flag framework to be offered at OWASP events

Activities/Deadline:

• Andrzej will contact the organizers of the CTF from the Denver OWASP Conference and work in using same model

Benefits Capture The Flag events are very popular in conferences, creating and OWASP specific CTF will offer entertainment at events, generate attendants participation etc.

Speakers Bureau Project

Objective
OWASP Boot Camp about the OWASP projects, to deliver a Boot Camp presentation should be one of the criteria to get an alpha status as project

Activities/Deadline:

Benefits
List of speakers, Name, Bio, Topics, History Speakers in conferences (OOTM ask for funds on this)/summit

Speakers Agreement - https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Speaker_Agreement

Marketing efforts

Objective: To promote OWASP projects, events, education material and OWASP mission.

Activities/Deadline:

• Gather flyers, Brochures of OWASP Top 10, Testing Guide

Benefits
Group promotional material which can be hand out at events

Internationalization of the training materials

Objective
Translate training materials

Activities/Deadline:
Identify point of contacts places for translation efforts and setup a deadline Translate material in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Malay, Italian, Indonesian, Chinese

Benefits
To reach international audiences

Education material

Objective: Consolidate all projects (Tools, Help Documents, Presentations, LiveCD) create educational material (training service)

Activities/Deadline:

Benefits

Academic Educational Services

Objectives
Promote and encourage OWASP resources at accredited Universities around the world within the next 12 months by introducing OWASP training and education material at University's events.

Activities/Deadline:

• Build a list of at least 5 Universities with computer science or risk management programs that can be targeted /Q1 2009
• Establish communication with targeted universities, generate key contacts and establish relationships /Q1 - Q4 2009
• Develop a list of possible academic events in which to participate /Q1 - Q2 2009
• Participate in at least 1 Academic event, present case studies or OWASP education materials /Q1 - Q4

Benefits
OWASP will gain exposure in the academic industry, starting with accredited universities around the world. Universities will become members of OWASP, provide meeting space, students will apply to OWASP grants, and provide support and structure