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Bay Area
- 1 OWASP Bay Area
- 2 Participation
- 3 Sponsorship/Membership
- 4 Next Event
- 5 About OWASP Bay Area Chapter
- 5.1 Geographic Area of Bay Area Chapter
- 5.2 Become a Presenter
- 5.3 Chapter Meetings
- 5.4 Past Events
- 5.4.1 August 2014 - San Francisco @ Lookout
- 5.4.2 May 2014 - Redwood City @ Evernote
- 5.4.3 March 2014 - San Francisco @ Stripe
- 5.4.4 Feb 2014 - San Jose @ Jillians
- 5.4.5 Feb 2014 - Special Free Training Event
- 5.4.6 Jan 2014 - San Jose @ F5
- 5.4.7 Dec 2013 - San Francisco @ Twilio
- 5.4.8 Nov 2013 - San Francisco @ LendingClub
- 5.4.9 Sept 2013 - Mt View @ Shape Security
- 5.4.10 July 2013 - Berkeley @ University of Berkely
- 5.4.11 Older Events
- 5.5 Bay Area Chapter Leaders
- 6 Stay In Touch
OWASP Bay Area
Welcome to the Bay Area chapter homepage.
Participation
OWASP Foundation (Overview Slides) is a professional association of global members and is open to anyone interested in learning more about software security. Local chapters are run independently and guided by the Chapter_Leader_Handbook. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related software security topic you would like to present on.
Sponsorship/Membership
to this chapter or become a local chapter supporter.
Or consider the value of Individual, Corporate, or Academic Supporter membership. Ready to become a member? 
150+ attendees at the OWASP Bay Area meeting in August, 2014
Picture is @BenHagen talking about cloud security and applications
Next Event
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - San Francisco @ Mozilla
OWASP Chapter Meeting in San Francisco hosted by Mozilla
When
- Wednesday, Dec 10
- 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where
Mozilla, 2 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA 94105
Agenda
5:30-6:15 pm - Networking with Drinks & Food
6:15-6:45 : Speaker: Jasvir Nagra, Google
7:00-7:30 : Speaker: Sergey Shekyan & Bei Zhang, Shape Security
7:30-8:00 : More food, drink, and security "hallway con"
Speakers
- Jasvir Nagra, Google
- Sergey Shekyan & Bei Zhang, Shape Security
Jasvir Nagra, Google
Firing Bots at Bugs
It remains all too easy to find simple security vulnerabilities in many web applications. Why is it so hard to automatically find vulnerabilities when finding them manually remains so relatively easy? In this talk, we’ll share some of gotchas that we’ve run into scanning for web security bugs at Google, armed with a 'firing squad' of examples. We'll then walk through some of the solutions we've come up with, and finish up with a few unsolved problems which remain that really make web vulnerability scanning a hard (but fun!) problem to work on.
Jasvir Nagra is a security engineer at Google dedicated to making the web vulnerability-free. He has led the design and implementation of Caja, a pure JavaScript sandbox. Previously, he co-authored Surreptitious Software, a book on obfuscation, software watermarking and tamper-proofing; and built autonomous soccer-playing robots. These days he builds web application scanners that work at scale
Sergey Shekyan & Bei Zhang, Shape Security
Headless Browsers Hide and Seek
Headless browsers have become indispensable tools for security teams, researchers, and attackers focusing on web applications. Tools like PhantomJS enable anyone to automatically interact with highly dynamic websites and to perform many types of automated attacks. This presentation will dive into headless browser detection and spoofing techniques.
Sergey Shekyan is a Principal Engineer at Shape Security, where he is focused on the development of the new generation web security product. Prior to Shape Security, he spent 4 years at Qualys developing their on demand web application vulnerability scanning service.
Bei Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer at Shape Security, focused on analysis and countermeasures of automatic web attacks. Previously, he worked at the Chrome team at Google with a focus on the Chrome Apps API. His interests include web security, source code analysis, and algorithms.
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About OWASP Bay Area Chapter
Geographic Area of Bay Area Chapter
The 'Bay Area' is actually the San Francisco Bay Area in California, which is near other large towns that are across the bay from San Francisco such as Berkeley and Oakland, and south of San Francisco are San Mateo, Palo Alto, and the whole San Jose area. Currently, the Bay Area OWASP Chapter covers this whole geographic region.
Become a Presenter
Submit your talk now for an upcoming OWASP Bay Area Chapter Meeting
Notes about OWASP presentations
OWASP presentations are geared for a technical audience. We are particularly interested in new approaches to tackling application security problems, defensive techniques for new technology in the application security space and lessons learned from developers and security professionals tackling application security. Please consider a wide breadth of topic areas and we can discuss if they should be tailored in a particular direction for the OWASP audience.
OWASP chapter presentations must not be sales pitches and must adhere to a vendor neutral approach to the topic.
Chapter Meetings
RSS of all public bay area events (it only contains the next event so don't worry if it's empty when you subscribe)
http://www.eventbrite.com/rss/user_list_events/22961305858
About Presentation Events
Presentation events will feature 1 or more speakers discussing application security. These events will include a networking session, with drinks and food, before and after the event.
About OWASP Social Hours
The purpose of the OWASP social gathering is:
- Informal security chat - the benefits of "hallway con" and security talk with others in the industry
- Networking - meet other people in the field and industry
- After work drinks - a nice break after a long work day
Note: These events won't have any formal presentations. They're meant to be social gatherings to meet others in the industry and chat about security. Check our quarterly OWASP Bay Area schedule for the security presentation events. https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Bay_Area
Is your organization interested in hosting an OWASP social hour in the bay area (San Francisco, South Bay, East Bay)? Contact michael.coates@owasp.org
Past Events
August 2014 - San Francisco @ Lookout
OWASP Chapter Meeting in San Francisco hosted by Lookout
- Paul McMillan from Nebula @PaulM - Attacking the Internet of Things using Time
- Ben Hagen from Netflix @BenHagen - Cloud Security at Scale and What it Means for Your Application
May 2014 - Redwood City @ Evernote
OWASP Chapter Meeting in Redwood City hosted by Evernote
- Arshad Noor - CTO, StrongAuth
- Rich Tener - Director of Security, Evernote
March 2014 - San Francisco @ Stripe
OWASP Social Hour in San Francisco - Wednesday, Mar 12, 2014
Hosted by Stripe
Feb 2014 - San Jose @ Jillians
OWASP Developer Training & Social Hour - Monday 2/24/2013 Hosted by OWASP at Jillian's Billiards Club
Feb 2014 - Special Free Training Event
OWASP is hosting a special security boot camp for all RSA attendees and local developers. The training is recommended for developers who want to learn more about securing their code as well as security professionals who want to become acquainted with the latest web vulnerabilities.
Presented by Jim Manico and Eoin Keary, this intensive boot camp focuses on the most common web application security problems, including aspects of both the OWASP Top Ten and the MITRE Top 25. The course will introduce and demonstrate application assessment techniques, illustrating how application vulnerabilities can be exploited so students really understand how to avoid introducing such vulnerabilities in their code and understand fixes.
Jan 2014 - San Jose @ F5
OWASP Social Hour in San Jose - Wednesday 1/22/2013 Hosted by F5
Dec 2013 - San Francisco @ Twilio
OWASP Social Hour in San Francisco - Thursday 12/19/2013 Hosted by Twilio
Nov 2013 - San Francisco @ LendingClub
OWASP Social Hour in Mountain View - Wednesday 11/6/13 Hosted by LendingClub
Sept 2013 - Mt View @ Shape Security
OWASP Social Hour in Mountain View - Wednesday 9/25/13 Hosted by Shape Security
July 2013 - Berkeley @ University of Berkely
OWASP Presentation Meeting
- An Empirical Study of Vulnerability Rewards Programs, Devdatta Akhawe
- "Putting Your Robots to Work", Twitter Security Team
Older Events
Bay Area Chapter Leaders
Stay In Touch
- All events will be listed on this webpage
- Keep in touch via twitter @OWASPBayArea or on Linkedin
