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OWASP Boston
Welcome to the Boston chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Jim Weiler.
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Links
Boston Application Security Conference 2011
Boston Application Security Conference 2010
Chapter Meetings
We usually meet the FIRST WEDNESDAY of EVERY MONTH (Unless a speaker can only present another night), 6:30 to 9 pm.
Everyone is welcome to come to any meeting, there is no signup or joining criteria, just come if it sounds interesting. Feel free to sign up to the OWASP Boston mailing list. This list is very low volume (2 - 3 emails/month); it is used to remind people about each monthly meeting, inform about local application security events and special chapter offers.
Information for meeting updates about this and other Boston area user groups can also be found at BostonUserGroups.
Locations
The Boston OWASP Chapter meets the FIRST WEDNESDAY of every month (Unless a speaker can only present another night). We usually meet at 6:30 pm in one of these two locations:
Microsoft Waltham -- the Microsoft offices at the Waltham Weston Corporate Center, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA.
From Rt. 128 North take exit 26 toward Waltham, East up the hill on Rt. 20. From Rt 128 South take exit 26 but go around the rotary to get to 20 East to Waltham. Follow signs for Rt. 117 (left at the second light). When you get to 117 turn left (West). You will cross back over Rt. 128. Jones Rd. (look for the Waltham Weston Corporate Center sign) is the second left, at a blinking yellow light, on Rt. 117 going west about 0.1 miles from Rt. 128 (I95). The office building is at the bottom of Jones Rd. Best parking is to turn right just before the building and park in the back. Knock on the door to get the security guard to open it. The room is MPR C.
Microsoft NERD Cambridge -- the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center
Directions and information: http://microsoftcambridge.com/About/Directions/tabid/89/Default.aspx
Upcoming Meetings
June 20 Microsoft Waltham - Fingerprinting web applications of all kinds - Rapid 7
6:45 - 7:15 Jim Weiler will discuss application security News and Views U Cn Use and Abuse
7:15 - Fingerprinting web applications of all kinds
This turbo talk will introduce a new Metasploit module that fingerprints "known" web applications, attempts the default credentials for the application, and runs an associated exploit or authenticated access module if applicable. Some example fingerprints in the database target common enterprise web applications including Microsoft products (Outlook Web Access, Sharepoint), printers (Xerox Document Centre), security cameras, routers, and others.
Will Vandevanter is a senior penetration tester and researcher at Rapid7. His focus interests include web application security and secure code. He has previously spoken at Defcon, SOURCE, BSides LV, and other conferences.
Pizza provided by Rapid 7
Past Meetings
April 11, 2012
Location - Microsoft Waltham (201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA)
Speaker - David Eoff, Senior Product Marketing Manager, HP Enterprise Security
David is a Senior Product Marketing Manager, within the Enterprise Security Products division of HP focused on Fortify application security. His 18+ years of background in software and hardware enterprise marketing provides a solid foundation for his marketing of the HP security solutions.
Prior to joining Fortify in 2009 and being acquired by HP, David ran Firewall and IPS marketing for the Security division of Nokia Corporation. In addition, he has held multiple positions in product marketing, product management, channel marketing and sales while working for Oracle, EMC, Legato, BMC Software and several start-ups.
Topic - Gray, the New Black: Gray-Box Vulnerability Testing
Over the years, two key techniques have emerged as the most effective for finding security vulnerabilities in software: Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and Static Application Security Testing (SAST). While DAST and SAST each possess unique strengths, the “Holy Grail” of security testing is thought to be “hybrid” – a technique that combines and correlates the results from both testing methods, maximizing the advantages of each. Until recently, however, a critical element has been missing from first generation hybrid solutions: information about the inner workings and behavior of applications undergoing DAST and SAST analysis.
This presentation will introduce you to the next generation of hybrid security analysis – what it is, how it works, and the benefits it offers. It will also address (and dispel) the claims against hybrid, and leave you with a clear understanding of how the new generation of hybrid will enable organizations to resolve their most critical software security issues faster and more cost-effectively than any other available analysis technology.
March 8, 2012, with the Boston Security Meetup group
Location - JobSpring, Boylston St.
Topic - Corporate Espionage for Dummies: The Hidden Threat of Embedded Web Servers
Speaker - VP for Security Research at ZScaler, along with other speakers at the security meetup.
Today, everything from kitchen appliances to television sets come with an IP address. Network connectivity for various hardware devices opens up exciting opportunities. Forgot to lower the thermostat before leaving the house? Simply access it online. Need to record a show? Start the DVR with a mobile app. While embedded web servers are now as common as digital displays in hardware devices, sadly, security is not. What if that same convenience exposed photocopied documents online or allowed outsiders to record your telephone conversations? A frightening thought indeed.
Software vendors have been forced to climb the security learning curve. As independent researchers uncovered embarrassing vulnerabilities, vendors had little choice but to plug the holes and revamp development lifecycles to bake security into products. Vendors of embedded web servers have faced minimal scrutiny and as such are at least a decade behind when it comes to security practices. Today, network connected devices are regularly deployed with virtually no security whatsoever.
The risk of insecure embedded web servers has been amplified by insecure networking practices. Every home and small business now runs a wireless network, but it was likely set up by someone with virtually no networking expertise. As such, many devices designed only for LAN access are now unintentionally Internet facing and wide open to attack from anyone, regardless of their location.
Leveraging the power of cloud based services, Zscaler spent several months scanning large portions of the Internet to understand the scope of this threat. Our findings will make any business owner think twice before purchasing a 'wifi enabled' device. We'll share the results of our findings, reveal specific vulnerabilities in a multitude of appliances and discuss how embedded web servers will represent a target rich environment for years to come.
December 13, 2011, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge, Horace Mann Room
Jeremiah Grossman – Founder and CTO WhiteHat Security
Directions: http://microsoftcambridge.com/About/Directions/tabid/89/Default.aspx
September 14 2011
Dinis Cruz - OWASP O2 Platform
The O2 Platform is focused on automating application security knowledge and workflows. It is a library of scriptable objects specifically designed for developers and security consultants to be able to perform quick, effective and thorough source code-driven application security reviews (blackbox + whitebox).
September 7 2011
Adriel Desautels – Differences between Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Scanning
July 2011
Anurag Agarwal, the founder of MyAppSecurity
Session 1 - Managing Risk with Threat Modeling Threat Modeling can help by guiding the Application Development Teams to ensure your Security Policies get properly coded into the Applications at time of Development. By creating pre-approved methods of coding for your development teams, and applying them in a repeatable and scalable process, you can assist your development teams in building a secure application easily and effortlessly.
Session 2 - False Positive, False Negative and False Sense of Security This interactive session will talk about the pros and cons of using black box testing tools and discuss their effectiveness in building a mature software security program.
Thursday June 2
Location - Microsoft NERD - http://microsoftcambridge.com/About/Directions/tabid/89/Default.aspx
Topic - Bringing Sexy Back: Defensive Measures That Actually Work
Presenter - Paul Asadoorian, Founder & CEO, PaulDotCom Enterprises
There is a plethora of information available on how to break into systems, steal information, and compromise users. As a penetration tester, I have performed testing on a regular basis that reveals severe security weaknesses in several organizations, and many of my peers have reported on the same. However, once you "own" the network and report on how you accomplished your goals, now what? Sure, we make defensive recommendations, but consistently it has been proven that security can be bypassed. Not enough focus is given to what works defensively. We have a lot of technology at our disposal: firewalls, intrusion detection, log correlation, but it provides little protection from today's threats and is often not implemented effectively. This talk will focus on taking an offensive look at defense. Applying techniques that are simple, yet break the mold of traditional defensive measures. We will explore setting up "traps" for attackers, slowing them down with simple scripts, using honeypots, planting bugs, and most importantly tying these methods to "enterprise security". This talk will also include real-world examples of the techniques in action from a live, heavily attacked site. Topics will include:
- Using wireless “attacks” on the attackers
- Implementing the Metasploit Decloak engine to find the attackers
- Setting traps to detect web application attacks
- Integrating results into your enterprise log management tool
The goal of this talk is to make defense “sexy”…
Presenter Bio
Paul Asadoorian is currently the "Product Evangelist" for Tenable Network Security, where he showcases vulnerability scanning and management through blogs, podcasts and videos. Paul is also the founder of PaulDotCom, an organization centered around the award winning "PaulDotCom Security Weekly" podcast that brings listeners the latest in security news, vulnerabilities, research and interviews with the security industry's finest. Paul has a background in penetration testing, intrusion detection, and is the co-author of "WRT54G Ultimate Hacking", a book dedicated to hacking Linksys routers.
Thursday May 26
Location - Microsoft Waltham (201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA)
Topic - OWASP Top 10 issue #4 – Insecure Direct Object Reference
Presenter - Jim Weiler, Sr. Mgr. Information Security, Starwood Hotels and President of OWASP Boston
Jim Weiler will discuss threat models, risks and various remediations of issue #4 in the 2010 OWASP Top 10 – Insecure Direct Object References.
Topic - A Web-Application Architecture for Regulatory Compliant Cloud Computing
Presenter - Arshad Noor, StrongAuth
The emergence of cloud-computing as an alternative deployment strategy for IT systems presents many opportunities, yet challenges traditional notions of data-security. The fact that data-security regulations are developing teeth, leaves information technology professionals perplexed on how to take advantage of cloud-computing while proving compliance to regulations for protecting sensitive information.
This presentation presents an architecture for building the next generation of web-applications. This architecture allows you to leverage emerging technologies such as cloud-computing, cloud-storage and enterprise key-management (EKM) to derive benefits such as lower costs, faster time-to-market and immense scalability with smaller investments - while proving compliance to PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH and similar data-security regulations.
Presenter Bio
Arshad Noor is the CTO of StrongAuth, Inc, a Silicon Vally-based company that specializes in enterprise key management. He is the designer and lead-developer of StrongKey, the industry's first open-source Symmetric Key Management System, and the KeyAppliance - the industry's first appliance combining encryption, tokenization, key-management and a cryptographic hardware module at an unprecedented value. He has written many papers and spoken at many forums on the subject of encryption and key-management over the years.
CANCELLED
Topic – Secure Application design and Coding -- CANCELLED
Presenter - Josh Abraham, Rapid 7
Speaker Bio
April 2011
Ed Adams Security Innovation -- the new OWASP Exams Project and the work being done by the OWASP Academies Working Group
March 2011
Josh Abraham, Rapid 7
Owning the world, one mobile app at a time, and web services pen testing.
Febrary 2011
Rob Cheyne, CEO of Safelight Security -
Security Leadership series: Delivering a successful security presentation
December 2010
Application Architecture Security Assessment - Second session
Rob Cheyne, CEO SafeLight Security Advisors
November 2010
Open SAMM – Software Assurance Maturity Model
Shakeel Tufail is the Federal Practice Manager at Fortify, an HP company.
October 2010
Rob Cheyne, CEO SafeLight Security Advisors Overview: In this highly interactive two-part workshop, Rob Cheyne of Safelight Security will show you the basics of conducting a real-world architecture & design review. This workshop draws from Safelight's Security Architecture Fundamentals training course, a two-day course frequently used to teach Fortune 500 companies how to look at their system architectures from both the hacker's and the designer’s point of view.
July 2010
Lightning Talk – Rob Cheyne, CEO Safelight Security Advisors In this installment of the Safelight lightning talks series, Rob will present the basics of a Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF).
Main Presentation - Drive-by Pharming with MonkeyFist
Joey Peloquin - Director of Application Security, Fishnet Security
June 2010
Rob Cheyne Lightning Talk - topic to be announced
Main Presentation - Ryan Barnett The Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) is a Web Application Security Consortium project dedicated to maintaining a list of web applications related security incidents. Ryan Barnett is director of application security research at Breach Security where he leads Breach Security Labs.
May 2010
Rob Cheyne Lightning Talk - SQL Injection
Vinnie Liu - Data Exposure, New Approaches to Open Source Intelligence Techniques, and Incident Handling
April 2010
Dan Hestad Security Innovation Dan will be talking about his experiences with PCI and web applications, and answering questions about do's and don'ts of acceptable PCI practices in web applications.
March 2010
Zack Lanier - Disclosure Samsara, or "the endless vulnerability disclosure debate"
http://n0where.org/talks/samsara_20100310.html
http://n0where.org/talks/samsara_20100310.pdf (very large PDF)
February 2010
Rob Cheyne of Safelight Security Advisors; New Technology, Same Old Vulnerabilities
January 2010 at Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Josh Abraham, Rapid 7 Technologies
December 2009
Eric Bender, Cenzic
November 2009
Jim Weiler, Sr. Mgr. Information Security, Starwood Hotels - Web Application Vulnerability Scanners
Mush Hakhinian, Leader, Application Security Practice, IntraLinks - Secure coding with no money down using SONAR: unleashing the power of open-source code analysis tools
October 2009
Paul Schofield, Senior Security Engineer, Imperva - From Rivals to BFF: WAF & VA Unite
September 2009 at CORE Technologies, Boston
Paul Asadoorian, Pauldotcom.com
Alex Horan, CORE Security
May 2009
Joey Peloquin, Fishnet Security, Secure SDLC: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly presentation pdf
March 2009
Sabha Kazerooni, Security Compass - Exploit Me tools; Framework Level Threat Analysis
Framework Level Threat Analysis document
Meeting Pizza Sponsor - Arcot
Arcot is a leader in online fraud prevention, strong authentication and eDocument security. Arcot's solutions are easily deployed, low-cost and extremely scalable, allowing organizations to transparently protect their users from fraud without changing user behavior or requiring expensive hardware.
Arcot can be contacted thru Michael Kreppein, [email protected], 617-467-5200
December 2008
Brian Holyfield, Gothem Digital Science
Tamper Proofing Web Applications http://www.gdssecurity.com/l/b/2008/12/04/
June 2008
Jeremiah Grossman; Founder and CTO, Whitehat Security
Appetizer - Hacking Intranets from the Outside (Just when you thought your network was safe) Port scanning with JavaScript
Main Topic - Business Logic Flaws: How they put your Websites at Risk
March 2008
Chris Eng; Senior Director, Security Research, Veracode
Description – Attacking crypto in web applications
December 2007
Scott Matsumoto; Principal Consultant, Cigital
Description – You Say Tomayto and I Say Tomahto – Talking to Developers about Application Security
November 2007
Tom Mulvehill Ounce Labs
Description – Tom will share his knowledge and expertise on implementing security into the software development life cycle. This presentation will cover how to bring practicality into secure software development. Several integration models will be explored as well as solutions for potential obstacles
October 2007
George Johnson, Principal Software Engineer EMC; CISSP
An Introduction to Threat Modeling.
September 2007
Day of Worldwide OWASP 1 day conferences on the topic "Privacy in the 21st Century"
June 2007
Tool Talk - Jim Weiler - WebGoat and Crosssite Request Forgeries
Danny Allan; Director, Security Research, Watchfire
Topic: Exploitation of the OWASP Top 10: Attacks and Strategies
March 2007
Jeremiah Grossman, CTO Whitehat Security: Top 10 Web Application Hacks of 2006
January 2007
Dave Low, RSA the Security Division of EMC: encryption case studies
November 2006
September 2006
Mike Gavin, Forrester Research: Web Application Firewalls
June 2006
Imperva - Application and Database Vulnerabilities and Intrusion Prevention
Jim Weiler - Using Paros Proxy Server as a Web Application Vulnerability tool
May 2006
April 2006
Dennis Hurst; SPI Dynamics: A study of AJAX Hacking
Jim Weiler; OWASP Boston: Using Paros HTTP proxy, part 1. first meeting with all demos, no powerpoints!
March 2006
Mateo Meucci; OWASP Italy Anatomy of 2 web attacks
Tom Stracener; Cenzic Web Application Vulnerabilities
February 2006
Ron Ben Natan; Guardium CTO Database Security: Protecting Identity Information at the Source
January 2006
David Low, Senior Field Engineer: RSA Practical Encryption
December 2005
Paul Galwas, Product Manager: nCipher Enigma variations: Key Management controlled
November 2005
Robert Hurlbut, Independent Consultant Threat Modeling for web applications
October 2005
Prateek Mishra, Ph.D. Director, Security Standards and Strategy: Oracle Corp Chaiman of the OASIS Security Services (SAML) Technical Committee - Identity Federation : Prospects and Challenges
Ryan Shorter, Sr. System Engineer: Netcontinuum - Application Security Gateways
September 2005
Dr. Herbert Thompson, Chief Security Strategist: SecurityInnovation - How to Break Software Security
July 2005
Mark O'Neill, CTO: Vordel - Giving SOAP a REST? A look at the intersection of Web Application Security and Web Services Security
June 2005
Arian Evans, National Practice Lead, Senior Security Engineer: Fishnet Security Overview of Application Security Tools
May 2005
Patrick Hynds, CTO: Critical Sites - Passwords - Keys to the Kingdom
April 2005
Jonathan Levin - Of Random Numbers
Jothy Rosenberg, Founder and CTO: Service Integrity - Web Services Security
March 2005
Joe Stagner: Microsoft Let's talk about Application Security
Feb 2005
Application Security Inc. PowerPoint slides for the Anatomy of a Database Attack.
Boston OWASP Chapter Leaders
President
- Jim Weiler 781 356 0067
Program Committee
- Mark Arnold
Communications Director
- Yolanda Liu
