User:Psiinon

Simon Bennetts (a.k.a. Psiinon) has been developing web applications since 1997, and strongly believes that you cannot build secure web applications without knowing how to attack them.

He works for a UK FTSE 100 company and leads a team that develops and penetration tests secure web applications, and also gives talks and training courses on web application security.

Some of the projects Simon works on:

• OWASP Zed Attack Proxy project lead
• OWASP Data Exchange Format project lead
• Bodge It Store project lead
• OWASP AppSensor contributor
• wavsep contributor
• 'Penetration Testing for Developers' blog author

He is also one of the chapter leaders for the newly formed Manchester chapter.

Simon has a B.Sc in Computing and Information Systems from Manchester University.

• To see Simon's wiki contributions, click here.

Contact details:

• Email address.
• Twitter: @psiinon

Talks and courses run:

• 2012/02/01 Manchester chapter meeting. Talk: The OWASP Top Ten
• 2011/10/25 OWASP Leeds chapter meeting. Talk: An introduction to ZAP
• 2011/10/20 OWASP Dublin chapter. 2 hour course: The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy
• 2011/09/23 Minneapolis AppSec USA. Talk: An introduction to ZAP - slides - video
• 2011/06/10 Dublin AppSec EU. Talk: An introduction to ZAP
• 2011/02/26 Manchester Linux User Group. Talk: An introduction to OWASP, the top 10 and ZAP
• 2010/12/08 OWASP Leeds chapter meeting. Talk: An introduction to ZAP