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OWASP Houston
Welcome to the Houston chapter homepage. The chapter leaders are Mark Feferman, Paul Dial, Linda Fox and David Nester
Participation
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Local News
The Houston Chapter will focus around Web Application Security issues with discussions on application layer vulnerabilties, penetration testing, and secure coding practices within the numerous development languages. Our chapter will meet on the second (2nd) Wednesday of each month and participation in OWASP Houston is free and open to all.
Please subscribe to the mailing list for meeting announcements. Our chapter's meetings are informal and encourage open discussion of all aspects of application security. Anyone in our area interested in web application security is welcome to attend. We encourage attendees to give short presentations about specific topics. If you would like to make a presentation, or have any questions about the Houston Chapter, send an email to David Nester.
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Chapter Meetings
October 14, 2009 :: CRM Security
- Presentation: Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are increasingly being used by organizations to increase revenue and improve efficiencies within their sales organizations. The overall objective of CRM is to identify, acquire, and retain customers, meaning that these systems contain information that has a direct impact on the competitive advantage of the organizaiton. It is therefore critical that this information be protected from unauthorized access or modification. This session will highlight the risks inherent within these systems and how to address them from both a process and technical perspective.
About Our Presenter:
Mark Adams is a subject matter expert in the area of IT security, compliance and audit. He has almost seven years of experience working for “Big 4” public accounting firms where he specialized in reviews of information system security, as well as compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and GLBA. Prior to his Big 4 career he supported IT departments in both the banking and energy sectors for over six years as a network, systems, and security administrator. His work for clients has included risk management consulting, penetration testing, IT controls evaluation, and security policy reviews and training. He currently works in the Application Security Group at Halliburton where he works with project managers in making sure that their applications can pass an audit.
Date: September 9, 2009
Time: 6:00-7:30 Welcome, Announcements and Presentation
Location:
The new OWASP meeting physical address is:
Houston Community College (HCC)
1010 West Sam Houston Parkway North
Spring Branch Campus Commons
Houston, TX 77043
PLEASE download a parking permit for the event.
Past Presentations
- August 12, 2009 : "SharePoint Auditing and Penetration Testing Presentation Download
Presentation by: Shohn Trojacek
- June 10, 2009 : "Web Application Security and PHP. Presentation Download
Presentation by: Eric Cherian
- May 13, 2009 (A): "Securing connection strings in the Web.Config and App.Config files for .NET Presentation Download
Presentation by: Mark Feferman, CISSP
- May 13, 2009 (B): "Stealing the Airlines Online Data Presentation Download
Presentation by: Quincy Jackson, CISSP
- April 8, 2009: "2009 Statistics Report and ClickJacking Presentation Download
Presentation by David Nester, Director, Solutions Architecture, Whitehat Security.
- August 19, 2008: "Dirty Dozen" - Truth and facts about PCI DSS Presentation Download
Presentation by Genady Vishnevetsky, CISSP Director, IT Operations and Security. Paymetric, Inc
- June 11, 2008: The OWASP Top 10 Presentation Download
Presentation by J Sawyer, Developer Evangelist of Microsoft
- November 7, 2007: Black Box versus White Box: Different App Testing Strategies Presentation Download
Presentation by John Dickson of the Denim Group.
- October 10, 2007 :: Top 10 Website Attack Techniques Presentation Download
Presentation by Jeremiah Grossman, CTO, Whitehat Security
- September 12, 2007: Fortify Software
- August 8, 2007: Atrysk Security Presentation Download
- June 5, 2007 :: Web 2.0 Presentation Download
Presentation by Dan Cornell of the Denim Group.
Houston OWASP Chapter Leaders
Our chapter leaders are Mark Feferman, Linda Fox, Paul Dial and David Nester.
