OWASP AppSec Europe 2009 - Poland

Welcome to the European 2009 OWASP Application Security Conference! After successful OWASP Conferences in the United States and Europe, we are back in Poland on May 11-14 2009!

May 13th–14th 2009, OWASP will hold its annual European Application Security conference in wonderfull Kraków, Poland. The Conference consists of two days of tutorial sessions on May 11th–12th, followed by a two-day conference with 3 different tracks. We attracted great European and international speakers. This year we organise the conference together with OWASP Poland and Confidence2009, a conference in Kraków on May 15th-16th.

Conference Location

This year, the conference will be held at the Park Inn Hotel, in the center of Kraków, Poland. This conference hotel will support the event and OWASP has negotiated a room block as well (details are in the accomodations section below).

Registration will be available via the OWASP Conference Cvent site soon.

If you are registering as a Speaker or Sponsor, a seperate registration event will be provided.

Conference Agenda - May 13-14

This year we extended the pogram to three tracks, with opening keynotes and presentations in the main auditorium, split tracks in the middle of the day, and closing pannel discussions back in the main auditorium both days.

Day 1 - May 13, 2009
	Track 1: Room 1	Track 2: Room 2	Track 3: Room 3
08:00-08:50	Registration and Coffee
08:50-09:00	Welcome to OWASP AppSec 2009 Conference Sebastien Deleersnyder, OWASP Foundation
09:00-09:45	Keynote Ross Anderson, Professor in Security Engineering, University of Cambridge
09:45-10:30	OWASP State of the Union Dinis Cruz & Sebastien Deleersnyder, OWASP Foundation
10:30-10:45	Break - Expo - CTF
10:45-11:25	Wild Wild Wild (www) Security Planet Mano Paul, SecuRisk Solutions	Secure Applications for PCI DSS Tim Holman, QCC Information Security Ltd	Mirage: building an application model made easy (OWASP Orizon v 1.2) Paulo Perego, Spike Reply
11:30-12:10	OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS) Project Dave Wichers, Aspect Security	Securing the .EDU: Application Security for Academia and Education Institutions Marcus Prendergast, Educational Testing Service	The Truth about Web Application Firewalls: What the vendors do not want you to know Wendel Guglielmetti Henrique, tbd & Sandro Gauci, EnableSecurity
12:10-13:30	Lunch - Expo - CTF
13:30-14:10	The Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) Pravir Chandra, Cognosticus	Web Application Harvesting Esteban Ribičić, tbd	Refereed Paper Track Speaker, Organisation
14:15-14:45	Application Penetration Testing - Client's Perspective Timo Sivonen, UBS	w3af, A framework to 0wn the web Andrés Riancho, tbd	Refereed Paper Track Speaker, Organisation
14:50-15:30	Surprise Dinis Cruz, tbd	Tracking the effectiveness of an SDL program: lessons from the gym Cassio Goldschmidt, Symantec Corporation	Refereed Paper Track Speaker, Organisation
15:30-15:45	Break - Expo - CTF
15:45-16:25	Exploiting Web 2.0 – Next Generation Vulnerabilities Shreeraj Shah, Blueinfy	OWASP Live CD: An open environment for Web Application Security Matt Tesauro, Texas Education Agency	Refereed Paper Track Speaker, Organisation
16:30-17:30	Panel Discussion Moderator: tbd , Panelists: tbd		Refereed Paper Track Speaker, Organisation
17:30-19:00	OWASP Leader Meeting Organized by tbd
19:00-?	OWASP Dinner
Day 2 - May 14, 2009
	Track 1: Room 1	Track 2: Room 2	Track 3: Room 3
08:00-09:00	Registration and Coffee
09:00-09:45	Keynote Bruce Schneier, Chief Security Technology Officer, BT
09:45-10:30	OWASP Projects Dave Wichers, OWASP Foundation
10:30-10:45	Break - Expo - CTF
10:45-11:25	Threat Modeling John Steven, Cigital	OWASP Source Code Flaws Top 10 Project Paulo Perego, Spike Reply	Flash Parameter Injection Adi Sharabani, IBM
11:30-12:10	OWASP Enterprise Security API (ESAPI) Project Dave Wichers, Aspect Security	Advanced SQL injection exploitation to operating system control Bernardo Damele, lead developer of sqlmap	Brain's hardwiring and its impact on software development and secure software Alexandru Bolboaca & Maria Diaconu, Mosaic Works
12:10-13:30	Lunch - Expo - CTF
13:30-14:10	OWASP "Google Hacking" Project Christian Heinrich, tbd	Deploying Secure Web Applications with OWASP Resources Kuai Hinojosa, New York University	The Bank in the Browser - Defending web infrastructures from banking malware Giorgio Fedon, Minded Security
14:15-14:45	HTTP Parameter Pollution Luca Carettoni, Independent Researcher & Stefano Di Paola, MindedSecurity	Leveraging agile to gain better secuity Erlend Oftedal, Bekk Consulting	Advanced Code Review Techniques - How to Find Needles in the Haystack Efficiently Siddharth Anbalahan, Plynt & Jaideep Jha, Plynt
14:50-15:30	Business Logic Attacks: Bots and Bats Amichai Shulman, Imperva	Real Time Defenses against Application Worms and Malicious Attackers Michael Coates, Aspect Security	OWASP ROI: Optimize Security Spending using OWASP Matt Tesauro, Texas Education Agency
15:30-15:45	Break - Expo - CTF
15:45-16:25	Factoring malware and organized crime in to Web application security Gunter Ollmann, IBM	Can an accessible web application be secure? Speaker, tbd	I thought you were my friend Evil Markup, browser issues and other obscurities Mario Heiderich, Business-IN
16:30-17:30	Panel discussion Moderator: tbd, Panelists: tbd		The New Web-Based Man-in-the-Middle Attack Adi Sharabani, IBM
17:30-17:45	Conference Wrap-Up & CTF Awards Dave Wichers, OWASP Foundation

Venue: Park Inn Hotel, Krakow

Registration is available via the OWASP Conference Cvent site at: tbd

Tutorial Days - May 11th and 12th

OWASP hosts 1 and 2 day tutorial sessions prior to the conference.

2 day tutorials:

• Hands on application security with the OWASP Live CD, by Matt Tesauro, Texas Education Agency
• Web Services Security, by Dave Wichers, Aspect Security
• Advanced Testing, by Michael Coates, Aspect Security

1 day tutorials:

• Web Application Security for Managers and Executives – The Road Less Travelled, by Mano Paul, SecuRisk Solutions
• Introduction to ModSecurity, the Apache Security Module, by Christian Folini, NetNea
• Web 2.0 Hacking – Attacks & Countermeasures, by Shreeraj Shah, Blueinfy
• Threat Modeling, by John Steven, Cigital
• In-depth Assessment Techniques: Design, Code, and Runtime, by Pravir Chandra, Cognosticus

More details and registration to follow soon!

Call for Research Papers

The call for refereed research papers is out: OWASP AppSec Europe 2009 CFRP

Accommodations

This year, the conference will be held at the Park Inn Hotel, in the center of Kraków, Poland.
Park Inn Hotel
Ul. Monte Cassino 2
30 - 337 Kraków
Poland
tel: 0048 – 12 – 375 – 40 – 02
fax : 0048 – 12 – 375 – 40 – 01

OWASP has negotiated a room block as well. Details to follow soon.

Transportation to the Conference

By plane

Krakow can be reached by commercial aviation through the John Paul II International Airport Krakow-Balice. 21 airlines fly to and from Krakow including British Airways, Alitalia, Germanwings, LOT, Lufthansa and cheap airlines such as SkyEurope, Ryanair, easyJet and centralwings.

You can go from the airport to the city centre by:

• Train

The train stop is located app. 200 m from the passenger terminal ( 5 minute walk)

It will take you 20 minutes and cost 6 PLN (less than 2EU) to get to the Krakow Main Station

• Bus

The 192 bus stop is located directly at the roundabout, in front of the passenger terminal. The trip to the Main Station takes app. 35 minutes. The ticket can be purchased at the ticket machine on the bus stop for 2,5 PLN (less than 1EU)

• Taxi

There are always taxis waiting for the passengers in front of the airport. The average price for a ride to the city centre is 50 PLN (around 15EU)

Find out more on John Paul II International Airport Krakow-Balice web page.

By train

You can also travel to Krakow by train from main Polish cities such as Warsow, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk and several cities in Europe. There is direct connection from Berlin, Wien, Prague etc.
Search for your connection here (your destination is Krakow Glowny).

How to get to the venue?

tbd

Registration and Conference Fees

Registration is available via the OWASP Conference Cvent site at: tbd

The conference fee for this conference is :

• Standard: 350 Euros, OWASP Members: 300 Euros, Students: 225 Euros.
• If you also register for CONFidence Poland 2009 you get a 15% reduction.

Other fees are:

• Conference Dinner: 50 Euros
• Conference Tutorials: 910 Euros (2 days) - 455 Euros (1 day)

Note: To save on processing expenses, all fees paid for the OWASP conference are non-refundable. OWASP can accomodate transfers of registrations from one person to another, if such an adjustment becomes necessary.

Conference Committee

OWASP Conferences Chair: Dave Wichers - Aspect Security - dave.wichers 'at' owasp.org

2009 EU Planning Committee Chair: Sebastien Deleersnyder - Telindus - seba 'at' owasp.org

2009 EU Program Committee:

• Sebastien Deleersnyder - seba 'at' owasp.org
• Mano Paul - mano.paul 'at' owasp.org
• Fabio Cerullo - fcerullo 'at' gmail.com
• Kuai Hinojosa - kuai.hinojosa 'at' owasp.org
• Andrzej Targosz - andrzej.targosz 'at' proidea.org.pl

Poland Chapter Host: Andrzej Targosz - OWASP Poland - andrzej.targosz 'at' proidea.org.pl

Capture the Flag Chair: Andrzej Targosz - andrzej.targosz 'at' proidea.org.pl

Refereed Papers Chair: Lieven Desmet - KU Leuven - Lieven.Desmet 'at' cs.kuleuven.ac.b

Affiliated Partners

We are glad to have the local support of:

• CONFidence Poland 2009
• ...

Conference Sponsors

The following organizations are sponsors for this conference. If you are interested in sponsoring an OWASP conference, please contact OWASP at: conferences 'at' owasp.org.

tbd

More information about conference sponsorship is available online.