Los Angeles

OWASP Los Angeles

Welcome to the Los Angeles chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Cassio Goldschmidt

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Upcoming Chapter Meeting

• Date: February 18th, 2009 7:30PM (Pizza, sponsored by iSec Partners, will be served 7:15PM)

   Meeting Location
   Symantec Corporation
   900 Corporate Pointe
   Culver City, CA 90230
   Laguna Conference Room

Main Presentation

• Cloud Computing and Security
  
  

The Cloud Computing and Software as a Service models are driving many companies to build innovative, scalable and cost effective alternatives to the traditional IT computing model. Even with the potential cost and scalability benefits of cloud computing, its use by more traditional enterprises has been retarded by the concerns of their professional security and audit staffs. In our experience these concerns are legitimate, and although surveys have shown that security is the #1 factor preventing adoption of cloud computing, there has been very little reliable discussion of the technical security risks inherent in the model and how engineers, sys-admins and architects can deal with these risks.

In this session, we will explore the widely differing security models of the leading cloud computing providers, including Amazon, Google and Salesforce. We will also reveal the significant differences in operational and application security practices necessary to deal with a cloud computing environment.

Alex Stamos is a co-founder and Partner at iSEC Partners Inc., a strategic digital security organization. Alex is an experienced security engineer specializing in solving difficult problems in application security and is a leading researcher in the field of web application and mobile security. He has been a featured speaker at top industry conferences such as Black Hat, Web 2.0 Expo, CanSecWest, DefCon, SyScan, SD Best Practices, Microsoft BlueHat and OWASP App Sec. Alex is a contributing author to "Hacking Exposed: Web 2.0" and an author of the upcoming book "Mobile Application Security", both from McGraw-Hill. He holds a BSEE from the University of California, Berkeley.

Everyone is welcome to join us at our chapter meetings. Meeting agenda will be sent to the Los Angeles OWASP mailing list prior to the meeting. List archives are also available for members who want to take a look at the latest discussion topics prior to the event.

Would you like to speak at an OWASP Los Angeles Meeting?

Call for Papers (CFP) is NOW OPEN ~ to submit educational topic for upcoming meeting please submit your BIO and talk abstract via email to Cassio Goldschmidt. When accepted it will be required to use the following powerpoint OWASP Template

This page provides a list of previous presentations conducted at the Los Angeles Chapter.

Los Angeles Chapter Leader

• Cassio Goldschmidt