User:Clerkendweller

Hello, I am Colin Watson.

Here you can find more details about who I am and what I do at OWASP. You can contact me on colin.watson (at) at owasp.org

Current OWASP Involvement

You can see my OWASP wiki contributions.

2011

I am currently involved in a number of OWASP areas:

• participant of the OWASP Global Industry Committee
• lead writer for the AppSensor Project Team response to the initial public draft of NIST SP 800-137 concerning "Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Federal Information Systems and Organizations"
• presented WebScarab and AppSensor projects at the OWASP Ireland training day in Dublin on 11 March
• nominated AppSensor in the Counter Terrorism and Specialist Security Awards, 19 April 2011, London, and encouraged other OWASP contributors to vote
• presented a talk about OWASP, its projects at BCS London Central, 17 February
• attended OWASP Summit 2011, chaired the working session on Privacy - Personal Data/PII, Legislation and OWASP, co-chaired the working session for the Industry Committee, panel member on Enterprise Web Defense Roundtable and OWASP website, and contributed to other sessions, including taking notes for chairs.
• led writing and submission of AppSensor's entry in the Global Security Challenge IFSEC Future of Security Competition 2011

2010

• participant and chair (up to 31st October) of the OWASP Global Industry Committee
• contributor of detector point ideas and documentation and promotion of the OWASP AppSensor Project
• contributor to the Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) by jointly developing XML data formats and XSL to create roadmap charts using SVG
• reviewer of the OWASP Top Ten Project 2010rc1
• speaker at Leeds chapter meeting in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• trainer for WebScarab, OWASP Top Ten and SAMM projects in London
• trainer for WebScarab project in London
• individual member of OWASP

2009

• speaker at London, Scotland and Ireland chapter meetings
• speaker at AppSec EU Krakow
• editorial reviewer of v1.0 Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM)
• reviewer of the OWASP ASVS
• nominated to be a member of the OWASP Global Industry Committee
• individual member of OWASP

2008

• speaker at London chapter meeting
• attendee and helper at OWASP Summit in Portugal
• research on OWASP Awards idea
• individual member of OWASP

2007

• individual member of OWASP

pre 2007

• consumer of OWASP resources

Elsewhere

I am based in London and is Technical Director for Watson Hall Ltd, an application security consultancy, write a less-technical blog aimed at website designers, developers and owners called Web Security, Usability and Design and tweet occasionally as Clerkendweller.