OWASP AppSec Europe 2009 - Poland

Block your agendas for May 11-14 and join us for which promises to be the Biggest European AppSec event of the year ! May 13th–14th 2009, OWASP will hold its annual European Application Security conference in wonderful Kraków, Poland (Google Maps Link). Not only do we have 2 fantastic key notes (Ross Anderson and Bruce Schneier) but we have 3 tracks stuffed with high quality topics and great speakers and 8 one and two day tutorials. This year we organise the conference together with OWASP Poland and Confidence2009, a conference in Kraków on May 15th-16th.

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Conference Location

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

Be FAST to register: we only accept 400 registrations for this event!

Registration via the OWASP Conference Cvent site: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

If you are registering as a Speaker or Sponsor, use the following link: Speaker-Sponsor Registration

Conference Agenda - May 13-14

This year we extended the program to three tracks, with opening keynotes and presentations in the main auditorium, split tracks in the middle of the day, and closing panel 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) Paolo 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, Trustwave & Sandro Gauci, EnableSecurity
12:10-13:30	Lunch - Expo - CTF
13:30-14:10	Application Penetration Testing - Client's Perspective Timo Sivonen, UBS	Web Application Harvesting Esteban Ribičić, tbd	Maturing Beyond Application Security Puberty Roger Thornton, Fortify
14:15-14:45	The Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) Pravir Chandra, Cognosticus	Advanced SQL injection exploitation to operating system full control Bernardo Damele Assumpcao Guimaraes, lead developer of sqlmap	OWASP "Google Hacking" Project Christian Heinrich, OWASP "Google Hacking" Project Lead
14:50-15:30	O2 - Advanced Source Code Analysis Toolkit Dinis Cruz, Ounce Labs	Tracking the effectiveness of an SDL program: lessons from the gym Cassio Goldschmidt, Symantec Corporation	When Security Isn’t Free: The Myth of Open Source Security Rob Rachwald, Fortify
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	CSRF: the nightmare becomes reality? Lieven Desmet, University Leuven
16:30-17:30	Panel: Queer Eye for the Security Guy They call themselves the Fierce Four. They are black-box badass, a source code super hero, an architecture authority and someone we like to call the proctor of process. In the spirit of NBC's Emmy award-winning reality television series, our four security experts will bring their combined decades of experience to bear on a contributor to an open source project (Drupal) that wants to get security right. Moderator: Jacob West - Panelists: Pravir Chandra, Roger Thornton and John Steven
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 Paolo Perego, Spike Reply	Flash Parameter Injection Adi Sharabani, IBM
11:30-12:10	OWASP Enterprise Security API (ESAPI) Project Dave Wichers, Aspect Security	w3af, A framework to 0wn the web Andrés Riancho, Bonsai Information Security	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 ROI: Optimize Security Spending using OWASP Matt Tesauro, Texas Education Agency	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 Eldad Chai, Imperva	Real Time Defenses against Application Worms and Malicious Attackers Michael Coates, Aspect Security	Beyond security principles approximation in software architectures Bart De Win, Ascure
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? Assessment issues for security testers, developers and auditors Colin Watson, Watson Hall Ltd	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: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

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, OWASP Live CD Project Lead, 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 (christian.folini 'at' netnea.com)
• 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

To see all tutorial and trainer details click HERE

Registration is available via the OWASP Conference Cvent site: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

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 (Google Maps Link)
Poland
tel: 0048 – 12 – 375 – 40 – 02
fax : 0048 – 12 – 375 – 40 – 01
e-mail: joanna.ploskonka <AT> rezidorparkinn.com
For 11-12-14 May OWASP has negotiated special room rates:

• Single 110 EUR per room/per night
• Double 120 EUR per room/per night

The above rates include: Super Breakfast buffet, High-speed Internet access and Tax
Be sure to use "OWASP" as reference.

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. If you are traveling from outside Europe, you might want to try https://travel.flights-to-europe.com

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: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Be fast to register: we only accept 400 registrations for this event!

The conference fee for this conference is :

• Standard: 350 Euros, OWASP Members: 300 Euros, Students: 225 Euros. (+10% Early Bird discount for registering by Mar-31)
• 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 accommodate 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

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.

More information about conference sponsorship is available online.

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