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Boston
Welcome to the OWASP Boston Chapter
To find out more about the Boston chapter, please send an email to Jim Weiler or just join the OWASP Boston mailing list.
We meet the FIRST WEDNESDAY of EVERY MONTH, 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 and an RSS feed for meeting updates about this and other Boston area user groups can be found at Boston User Groups.
Location
The Boston OWASP Chapter meets the FIRST WEDNESDAY of every month, 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.
Reviews
I've been listening to lots of Computer Security presentations on my iPod (MP3 files) and I've found them a great way to spend some of the 5 hours a week commuting time I have. I thought I'd share my opinion of the ones I've found, and maybe some of you can let us know your opinions of any security podcasts you know of. Most of these I found using iTunes as the podcast aggregator, but I've included their direct links and their own self description. Most you can subscribe to, but some are from a portal of single podcasts. Generally no one's background, experience or job is described. None of these are particularly about web application security except MightySeek, but they can be interesting. There are others explicitly about network or VOIP security that I have not included. I've included the iPod display and iTunes description in order to judge how easy it is to select the one you want on your iPod and to manage them in your library, like remembering which ones you've listened to and deleting them.
Next Meeting
Wed. Sept 6
- 6:30 pm - Jim Weiler - Short Topic - TBD
- 7:00 Imperva - Application and Database Vulnerabilities and Intrusion Prevention
- 8:15 - Using Paros Proxy Server as a Web Application Vulnerability tool - Part 3 analysing Paros sessions; Paros utilities
Past Meeting Notes
Past Meeting Notes
Feb 2005
Application Security Inc. PowerPoint slides for the Anatomy of a Database Attack.
March 2005
Joe Stagner: Microsoft Let's talk about Application Security
April 2005
Jonathan Levin - Of Random Numbers
Jothy Rosenberg, Founder and CTO: Service Integrity - Web Services Security
May 2005
Patrick Hynds, CTO: Critical Sites - Passwords - Keys to the Kingdom
June 2005
Arian Evans, National Practice Lead, Senior Security Engineer: Fishnet Security Overview of Application Security Tools
July 2005
Mark O'Neill, CTO: Vordel - Giving SOAP a REST? A look at the intersection of Web Application Security and Web Services Security
September 2005
Dr. Herbert Thompson, Chief Security Strategist: SecurityInnovation - How to Break Software Security
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
November 2005
Robert Hurlbut, Independent Consultant Threat Modeling for web applications
December 2005
Paul Galwas, Product Manager: nCipher Enigma variations: Key Management controlled
January 2006
David Low, Senior Field Engineer: RSA Practical Encryption
February 2006
Ron Ben Natan; Guardium CTO Database Security: Protecting Identity Information at the Source
March 2006
Mateo Meucci; OWASP Italy Anatomy of 2 web attacks
Tom Stracener; Cenzic Web Application Vulnerabilities
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!
