Summit 2011 Working Sessions/Session009

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XSS and the Frameworks
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WORKING SESSION IDENTIFICATION
Short Work Session Description	Can we work with the common web frameworks to prevent XSS at the framework level? If the framework a developer uses handles the most common cases of XSS occurring, the overall prevalence of XSS will be reduced significantly.
Related Projects (if any)	ESAPI
Email Contacts & Roles	Chair Justin Clarke @	Operational Manager	Mailing list Subscription Page

WORKING SESSION SPECIFICS
Objectives	Work on how OWASP can engage with the major web frameworks to move towards a "secure by default" stance Work on OWASP resources to provide patches/design approaches in conjunction with the frameworks
Venue/Date&Time/Model	Venue/Room OWASP Global Summit Portugal 2011	Date & Time	Discussion Model participants and attendees

WORKING SESSION OPERATIONAL RESOURCES
Projector, whiteboards, markers, Internet connectivity, power

WORKING SESSION ADDITIONAL DETAILS
*Related resources: OWASP Working Session - Browser Security Letters *Frameworks to invite: .NET, Struts, Spring, Ruby on Rails

WORKING SESSION OUTCOMES / DELIVERABLES
Proposed by Working Group	Approved by OWASP Board
OWASP statement/Press release to publicly ask the frameworks to build security in	After the Board Meeting - fill in here.
Engagement plan on how we'd work with (if at all) a framework to get ESAPI or similar functionality integrated	After the Board Meeting - fill in here.
White paper or standard for what we want the web frameworks to provide in terms of XSS defenses. Turning the XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet into a standard/metric for frameworks would be great.	After the Board Meeting - fill in here.
OWASP Standard defining an appraisal methodology for a framework’s XSS prevention capability based on the other deliverable.	After the Board Meeting - fill in here.
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Working Session Participants

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WORKING SESSION PARTICIPANTS
Name	Company	Notes & reason for participating, issues to be discussed/addressed
Chris Eng @
Abraham Kang