London

OWASP London

Welcome to the London chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Justin Clarke (justin.clarke [at] owasp.org) since January 2009, with Tobias Gondrom (tobias.gondrom [at] owasp.org), Dennis Groves (dennis.groves [at] owasp.org), and Chris Lamont-Smith (chris.lamont-smith [at] owasp.org) constituting the London Chapter Board

Participation

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Next Meeting/Event(s)

Thursday, February 2nd 2012 ,18:30-21:00

Location: Royal Holloway University of London, Bourne Lecture Theatre 2, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX

Speakers: Sarah Baso, Dinis Cruz, Dennis Groves

• Security as Pollution (lessons learned) - Dinis Cruz

  Based on David Rice's "Upon the Threshold of Opportunity" presentation at the OWASP AppSec USA 2010

• Making Security Invisible by Becoming the Developer's Best Friends - Dinis Cruz

  Based on Dinis' presentation at OWASP AppSec Brazil 2011

• How to get a job in AppSec by Hacking and fixing TeamMentor - Dinis Cruz and Dennis Groves

  This is for students and developers who want to get into the application security space and need to have/show real-world experience.

• What's Happening on OWASP Today - Sarah Baso

  This is an overview of the multiple activities that are currently happening around the world at OWASP presented by one of OWASP's employees currently focused on logistics, community and empowerment

Future Events

Thursday, March 8th 2012 (Royal Holloway)

Location: Royal Holloway University of London, Room BLT2, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX

Watch this space - dates for the rest of the year will be added as these are confirmed.

Thursday, March 29th 2012 (Central London)

Location: Canary Wharf, London E14 4QA

Talks

• Deep Access Control Best Practices and Anti-Patterns - Jim Manico

  Access Control is a necessary security control at almost every layer within a web application. This talk will discuss several of the key access control anti-patterns commonly found during website security audits. These access control anti-patterns include hard-coded security policies, lack of horizontal access control, and "fail open" access control mechanisms. In reviewing these and other access control problems, we will discuss and design a positive access control mechanism that is data contextual, activity based, configurable, flexible, and deny-by-default - among other positive design attributes that make up a robust web-based access-control mechanism.

• IronWASP - Manish Saindane

  [description to come]

Speakers

• Jim Manico is the VP of Security Architecture for WhiteHat Security, a web security firm. Jim is a participant and project manager of the OWASP Developer Cheatsheet series. He is also the producer and host of the OWASP Podcast Series.
• Manish Saindane [bio to come]

Thursday, May 10th 2012 (Central London)

Location: To be confirmed

Thursday, July 12th 2012 (Central London)

Location: To be confirmed

Thursday, September 13th 2012 (Central London)

Location: To be confirmed

Thursday, November 8th 2012 (Central London)

Location: To be confirmed

Past Events

Thursday, September 8th 2011

Location: Royal Holloway University of London, Bourne Lecture Theatre 2, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX

Speaker: Daniel Cuthbert (deck)

Title: Doing it for the Lulz: Why Lulzsec has shown us to be an ineffective industry.

Bio: Daniel Cuthbert is one of the Open Web Application Security Project Leaders and the Assessment manager for SensePost. He has been researching, and involved, with web application security since the late 90’s and has worked on a wide range of projects to ensure that the development life cycle is secure and the overall application can withstand today’s hackers.

Directions to Royal Holloway and a Campus Plan are available from the following website (Bourne LT 2 is in building 31 on the Campus Plan).

Friday, June 3rd 2011

Location: Royal Holloway University of London, Room BLT2, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX

• Wordpress Security - Steve Lord (PDF)

  Wordpress is one if the most popular blogging systems in the world but is routinely used to shoehorn complex sites into a blog shaped box, often because of it's flexibility and ease of use. In this talk, Mandalorian's Steve Lord discusses common Wordpress security snafus and how to avoid them.

Thursday, April 14th 2011

Location: Charterhouse Bar, 38 Charterhouse Street, Smithfield, London EC1M 6JH

• Wordpress Security - Steve Lord (PDF)

  Wordpress is one if the most popular blogging systems in the world but is routinely used to shoehorn complex sites into a blog shaped box, often because of it's flexibility and ease of use. In this talk, Mandalorian's Steve Lord discusses common Wordpress security snafus and how to avoid them.

• Outcomes from the recent OWASP Summit in Portugal - London based attendees of the Summit

  Discussion of what came out of the recent OWASP Summit, "OWASP 4.0" and what is changing in the OWASP world now and in the near future

Thursday, February 17th 2011

Location: ThoughtWorks, Berkshire House, 168-173 High Holborn, City of London WC1V 7AA

A special meeting event, in conjunction with London Geek Nights on SSL usage and dangers. An opportunity to get some of the developer and security communities together to talk more pragmatically on this very key topic.

Archived Events

For events before 2011, see Archived OWASP London Events

Other Activities

• February 2010 - Personal Information Online COP

The Leeds UK, London and Scotland Chapters joint response to the UK Information Commissioner's Office draft Personal Information Online Code of Practice.

• March 2009 - Entry for Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2009

Open Web Application Security Project was nominated by OWASP London for the Best Security Initiative Award (File:Nominet best practice challenge 2009 owasp entry.pdf) in the Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2009. Short-listed June 2009. Announcement due 2 July 2009.

• 16th October 2008 - COI Browser Standards for Public Websites

The London and Scotland Chapters joint response to the Central Office of Information draft document on browser standards for public websites (version 0.13) (File:OWASP-COI-Browser-Standards.pdf).