Minneapolis St Paul

OWASP Minneapolis/St. Paul

Welcome to the Minneapolis/St. Paul chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Robert Sullivan

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Local News

Next meeting: Tuesday, April 24, 6:00pm at Integral Business Solutions, Roseville

Agenda February 20

6:00pm - Food, Introduction and optional sign-in for CISSP credits.

6:10pm - Update on OWASP project (your name here)

6:20pm - "Why We Make Bad Security Choices, The Psychology of Security" (Joe Teff)

7:10pm - "Open Source Tools to Audit Drupal websites" (pending)

7:30pm - Book Review "Hacker's Challenge 3", (Bob S., all)

7:45pm - Meeting ideas

7:57pm - Upcoming Events: Secure 360 May 17-18 St. Paul

Speaker Bios

Gunnar Peterson is a Managing Principal at Arctec Group. He is focused on distributed systems security for large mission critical financial, financial exchanges, healthcare, manufacturer, and insurance systems, as well as emerging start ups Mr. Peterson is an internationally recognized software security expert, frequently published, an Associate Editor for IEEE Security & Privacy Journal on Building Security In, an Associate Editor for Information Security Bulletin, a contributor to the SEI and DHS Build Security In portal on software security, and an in-demand speaker at security conferences.

Robert Sullivan is the Twin Cities Chapter leader.

Location:

Technical Building, 1501 Hennepin Ave., room M1200 (This building is immediately South West of the MEC building where we have recently met.) http://www.metrostate.edu/bldgservices/location.html#mpls

Street parking is free after 6 pm. If you get there early it's just a $.25 for a half hour. There is also a ramp which is $5.00.

Directions:

Directions and a building map is here:

http://www.metrostate.edu/bldgservices/location.html#mpls

Street parking is free after 6 pm. If you get there early it's just a $.25 for a half hour. There is also a ramp which is $5.00.

Book Giveaway:

Please bring a copy of a good security book that you can contribute. There will be a drawing for any books.

Food:

Lona will bring food. This is always a treat.