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Next Meeting 15th April
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Next Meeting 23rd July
 
   
 
   
 
Venue: Ernst & Young, Harcourt Street
 
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Speakers:
 
Speakers:
 
   
 
   
'''Mark Hillick (AIB)'''
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'''Niall Jordan (Realex Payments)'''
 
   
 
   
'''Irish CERT Project'''
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'''Evading SQL injection detection through encoding'''
 
   
 
   
The Irish Reporting & Information Security Service (IRISS) is an independent not for profit company limited by guarantee founded in 2008 to provide a range of free services to Irish businesses and consumers in relation to information security issues to help counter the security threats posed to the Irish businesses and the Irish Internet space
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The purpose of this presentation is to give a basic understanding of how character set encoding can be used to evade common SQL injection detection techniques. It will start with a brief introduction to character set encoding to give the viewer the necessary overview to adequately understand the attack vectors. It will then move on to quickly describe normal SQL injection techniques and their detection and then go into detail on using character set encoding to bypass conventional detection methods. Practical examples will be shown along with methods to prevent these attacks.
 
   
 
   
'''Mairtin O'Sullivan (Espion)'''
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'''Colin Watson (Watson Hall)'''
 
   
 
   
'''Manual Web App Testing Methodology/Procedure.'''
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'''Software Assurance Maturity Model 1.0'''
 
*Objective is to provide a basic testing methodology to ensure consistent and comprehensive testing of applications.
 
 
*Will outline what information is required prior to testing, how to identify all the functionality within the application that require testing, how to ensure that all types of vulnerabilities are tested and how to keep track of the functionality tested.
 
 
*Will focus on free tools and manual testing but can be adopted for use with any tools or automated testing.
 
 
   
 
   
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he Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) is now an OWASP project and in March became release quality. What is software assurance? What is a maturity model? What is SAMM? The presentation will explain how SAMM can be used to assess and improve software development security practices, reducing security risk and increasing software assurance, in all sizes of organisation.
  
Mairtin is a senior security consultant with Espion, providing consultancy on all areas of information security. He leads Espion's web application security testing, has been performing web application security reviews for over three years and is responsible for developing Espion's training offerings in web application security.
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Colin Watson's initial work was in the production and process engineering fields, but since completing an MSc in Computation at the University of Oxford in 1995, he has been employed in web software development, with an increasing focus on the security aspects. He is now a consultant, based mainly in London, working with developers, testers, auditors and people from a non-IT background to improve security practices. Colin joined the OWASP Global Industry Committee in January 2009.
  
 
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Revision as of 08:36, 30 June 2009

OWASP Ireland

Welcome to the Ireland chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Eoin Keary


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Chapter Meetings

OWASP are holding an event in Ireland. The venue is Trinity College, Dublin. Date: September 10, 2009

More information: OWASP_Ireland_AppSec_2009_Conference

We have a host of international speakers lined up for the event such as Professor Ian_O._Angell of the London School of Economics and Danny_Allen, Director of security research, IBM.


2009:

Location: Harcourt Street, thanks to Ernst & Young.

Agenda

Next Meeting 23rd July

Venue: Ernst & Young, Harcourt Street

Time: 18:30


Speakers:

Niall Jordan (Realex Payments)

Evading SQL injection detection through encoding

The purpose of this presentation is to give a basic understanding of how character set encoding can be used to evade common SQL injection detection techniques. It will start with a brief introduction to character set encoding to give the viewer the necessary overview to adequately understand the attack vectors. It will then move on to quickly describe normal SQL injection techniques and their detection and then go into detail on using character set encoding to bypass conventional detection methods. Practical examples will be shown along with methods to prevent these attacks.

Colin Watson (Watson Hall)

Software Assurance Maturity Model 1.0

he Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) is now an OWASP project and in March became release quality. What is software assurance? What is a maturity model? What is SAMM? The presentation will explain how SAMM can be used to assess and improve software development security practices, reducing security risk and increasing software assurance, in all sizes of organisation.

Colin Watson's initial work was in the production and process engineering fields, but since completing an MSc in Computation at the University of Oxford in 1995, he has been employed in web software development, with an increasing focus on the security aspects. He is now a consultant, based mainly in London, working with developers, testers, auditors and people from a non-IT background to improve security practices. Colin joined the OWASP Global Industry Committee in January 2009.

Time

6:30

Location

Ernst & Young,
Harcourt Centre, Harcourt St,
Dublin 2
Opposite the Odeon Pub

Drop me a mail if you have any queries: eoin.keary <at> owasp.org

Ireland OWASP Chapter Leaders

The chapter leader is Eoin Keary