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OWASP Boston
Welcome to the Boston chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Jim Weiler
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Local Chapter Information --- Our Sixth Year
The chapter shipping/mailing address is:
OWASP Boston 35 Wachusett Dr Lexington, MA. 02421
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Chapter Meetings
We usually meet the FIRST WEDNESDAY of EVERY MONTH (Unless a speaker can only present another night), 6:30 to 9 pm.
Everyone is welcome to come to any meeting, there is no signup or joining criteria, just come if it sounds interesting. Feel free to sign up to the OWASP Boston mailing list. This list is very low volume (2 - 3 emails/month); it is used to remind people about each monthly meeting, inform about local application security events and special chapter offers.
Information for meeting updates about this and other Boston area user groups can also be found at BostonUserGroups.
Location
The Boston OWASP Chapter meets the FIRST WEDNESDAY of every month ( Unless a speaker can only present another night), 6:30 pm at the Microsoft offices at the Waltham Weston Corporate Center, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA.
From Rt. 128 North take exit 26 toward Waltham, East up the hill on Rt. 20. From Rt 128 South take exit 26 but go around the rotary to get to 20 East to Waltham. Follow signs for Rt. 117 (left at the second light). When you get to 117 turn left (West). You will cross back over Rt. 128. Jones Rd. (look for the Waltham Weston Corporate Center sign) is the second left, at a blinking yellow light, on Rt. 117 going west about 0.1 miles from Rt. 128 (I95). The office building is at the bottom of Jones Rd. Best parking is to turn right just before the building and park in the back. Knock on the door to get the security guard to open it. The room is MPR C.
Next Meeting ---- Wed. March 10 IN OUR SIXTH YEAR
Agenda: 6:30 - 7 - what's happening in OWASP and how it might be useful to you, general Q+A, networking
7 - 9 Main Presentations
Main Presentation - Zack Lanier - Disclosure Samsara, or "the endless vulnerability disclosure debate"
Vulnerability disclosure has a purpose. It can help make software and hardware vendors and service providers accountable for shortcomings in their offerings; and detailed or full disclosure can give IT and information security professionals the information they need to validate the resilience and efficacy of their controls. Generally speaking, a happy balance is achieved when vulnerabilities are disclosed in a "responsible" manner. But what is "responsible"?
It’s been nearly a decade since the introduction of RFPolicy, a document often considered to be the basis for modern, responsible vulnerability disclosure, yet there still remains a significant division between the camps of "full disclosure", "partial disclosure", and "zero disclosure". The "responsible disclosure" debate seems to be an endless cycle, coming back fully reconstituted *just* when we think it’s been run dry. Lawsuits, gag orders, and boatloads of drama are some of the negative things researchers have dealt with when disclosing a bug or flaw to a vendor or service provider. This type of reaction can be very discouraging for a security researcher, possibly resulting in them eschewing communication with the vendor in favor of disclosing it outright or even selling the details to the highest bidder.
With continued, accelerated awareness and discussion, the information security community can work toward solidifying an approach to disclosure that, amongst other things:
- facilitates interaction between the researcher and vendor or service provider
- acknowledges the researcher’s work
- provides adequate protection for the security researcher
- builds a reasonable timeline and plan for a solution to the bug or flaw (and keeps parties from stalling)
- builds a reasonable timeline for public disclosure of the bug or flaw """
Bio:
""" Zach Lanier is a Senior Security Consultant with the Intrepidus Group, a firm specializing in security assessment services. Zach's areas of focus are network and application penetration testing, intrusion analysis, and general hackery, with frequent dabbling in security and privacy research.
Past Meeting Notes
February 2010
Rob Cheyne of Safelight Security Advisors; New Technology, Same Old Vulnerabilities
January 2010 at Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Josh Abraham, Rapid 7 Technologies
December 2009
Eric Bender, Cenzic
November 2009
Jim Weiler, Sr. Mgr. Information Security, Starwood Hotels - Web Application Vulnerability Scanners
Mush Hakhinian, Leader, Application Security Practice, IntraLinks - Secure coding with no money down using SONAR: unleashing the power of open-source code analysis tools
October 2009
Paul Schofield, Senior Security Engineer, Imperva - From Rivals to BFF: WAF & VA Unite
September 2009 at CORE Technologies, Boston
Paul Asadoorian, Pauldotcom.com
Alex Horan, CORE Security
May 2009
Joey Peloquin, Fishnet Security, Secure SDLC: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly presentation pdf
March 2009
Sabha Kazerooni, Security Compass - Exploit Me tools; Framework Level Threat Analysis
Framework Level Threat Analysis document
Meeting Pizza Sponsor - Arcot
Arcot is a leader in online fraud prevention, strong authentication and eDocument security. Arcot's solutions are easily deployed, low-cost and extremely scalable, allowing organizations to transparently protect their users from fraud without changing user behavior or requiring expensive hardware.
Arcot can be contacted thru Michael Kreppein, [email protected], 617-467-5200, www.arcot.com
December 2008
Brian Holyfield, Gothem Digital Science
Tamper Proofing Web Applications http://www.gdssecurity.com/l/b/2008/12/04/
June 2008
Jeremiah Grossman; Founder and CTO, Whitehat Security
Appetizer - Hacking Intranets from the Outside (Just when you thought your network was safe) Port scanning with JavaScript
Main Topic - Business Logic Flaws: How they put your Websites at Risk
March 2008
Chris Eng; Senior Director, Security Research, Veracode
Description – Attacking crypto in web applications
December 2007
Scott Matsumoto; Principal Consultant, Cigital
Description – You Say Tomayto and I Say Tomahto – Talking to Developers about Application Security
November 2007
Tom Mulvehill Ounce Labs
Description – Tom will share his knowledge and expertise on implementing security into the software development life cycle. This presentation will cover how to bring practicality into secure software development. Several integration models will be explored as well as solutions for potential obstacles
October 2007
George Johnson, Principal Software Engineer EMC; CISSP
An Introduction to Threat Modeling.
September 2007
Day of Worldwide OWASP 1 day conferences on the topic "Privacy in the 21st Century"
June 2007
Tool Talk - Jim Weiler - WebGoat and Crosssite Request Forgeries
Danny Allan; Director, Security Research, Watchfire
Topic: Exploitation of the OWASP Top 10: Attacks and Strategies
March 2007
Jeremiah Grossman, CTO Whitehat Security: Top 10 Web Application Hacks of 2006
January 2007
Dave Low, RSA the Security Division of EMC: encryption case studies
November 2006
September 2006
Mike Gavin, Forrester Research: Web Application Firewalls
June 2006
Imperva - Application and Database Vulnerabilities and Intrusion Prevention
Jim Weiler - Using Paros Proxy Server as a Web Application Vulnerability tool
May 2006
April 2006
Dennis Hurst; SPI Dynamics: A study of AJAX Hacking
Jim Weiler; OWASP Boston: Using Paros HTTP proxy, part 1. first meeting with all demos, no powerpoints!
March 2006
Mateo Meucci; OWASP Italy Anatomy of 2 web attacks
Tom Stracener; Cenzic Web Application Vulnerabilities
February 2006
Ron Ben Natan; Guardium CTO Database Security: Protecting Identity Information at the Source
January 2006
David Low, Senior Field Engineer: RSA Practical Encryption
December 2005
Paul Galwas, Product Manager: nCipher Enigma variations: Key Management controlled
November 2005
Robert Hurlbut, Independent Consultant Threat Modeling for web applications
October 2005
Prateek Mishra, Ph.D. Director, Security Standards and Strategy: Oracle Corp Chaiman of the OASIS Security Services (SAML) Technical Committee - Identity Federation : Prospects and Challenges
Ryan Shorter, Sr. System Engineer: Netcontinuum - Application Security Gateways
September 2005
Dr. Herbert Thompson, Chief Security Strategist: SecurityInnovation - How to Break Software Security
July 2005
Mark O'Neill, CTO: Vordel - Giving SOAP a REST? A look at the intersection of Web Application Security and Web Services Security
June 2005
Arian Evans, National Practice Lead, Senior Security Engineer: Fishnet Security Overview of Application Security Tools
May 2005
Patrick Hynds, CTO: Critical Sites - Passwords - Keys to the Kingdom
April 2005
Jonathan Levin - Of Random Numbers
Jothy Rosenberg, Founder and CTO: Service Integrity - Web Services Security
March 2005
Joe Stagner: Microsoft Let's talk about Application Security
Feb 2005
Application Security Inc. PowerPoint slides for the Anatomy of a Database Attack.
Boston OWASP Chapter Leaders
President
Jim Weiler 781 356 0067
Program Committee
Mark Arnold
Jim Weiler 781 356 0067
