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Welcome to the Los Angeles Chapter!

Single Meeting Supporter: Organizations that wish to support the OWASP Los Angeles Chapter with a 100% tax deductible donation enable the OWASP Foundation to continue its mission

Get the following benefits::

- Meet upwards of 70-110 potential new clients
- Be recognized as a local supporter by posting your company logo on the local chapter page and on our Meetup site
- Have your marketing write-up included in e-mail blasts sent prior to a monthly meeting.
- Have a table at local chapter meeting 
- Promote your products and services
- Bring a raffle prize to gather business cards

Contact us #Los Angeles Chapter for general questions relating to sponsorship and donations

Participation

OWASP Foundation is a professional association of global members and is open to anyone interested in learning more about software security. Local chapters are run independently and guided by the Chapter_Leader_Handbook. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related security topic you would like to present on.

Announcements

AppSec California is back at the Annenberg Beach House January 26-28, 2015. Sign up NOW, before prices go up!

OWASP Los Angeles received the BEST Chapter Leaders award at AppSec USA NY

[1] OWASP-Los-Angeles We are on Meetup. Please join our community here.

If you are unable to access Meetup from your work computer as a result of filtering of social sites, we recommend that you view it on your smart phone or via your personal computer.

http://www.meetup.com/OWASP-Los-Angeles/

Become an OWASP Member TODAY

Support your LA Chapter: only $50 for the entire year!

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Individual_Member

Next OWASP Meeting

**NOTE: Please review NEW parking rules (@meetup.com) for our monthly meetings at Symantec as of 7/22/2014 **

Nov 19, 2014 @7pm Symantec Corporation 900 Corporate Pointe , Culver City, CA

   Topic:  Android Wear and Google Glass

Android Wear and Google Glass introduce new ways of interacting with our apps and receiving timely, contextual information from the world around us. Smartphones and tablets are becoming the central point for sending and receiving data from wearables and sensors. Building apps for a wearable world introduces new risks as well as shifts the responsibilities for implementing security controls to other layers.

Many of the same issues we’re familiar with from past Android experiences are still relevant, while some issues are less impactful or not (currently) possible within existing wearables. At the same time, extending the app’s trust boundaries introduces new points of exposure for developers to be aware of in order to proactively defend against attacks. We want to highlight these areas, which developers may not be aware of when adding a wearable component to an existing app.

In this presentation, we will explore how Android Wear and Glass work underneath the hood. We will examine their methods of communication, data replication, and persistence options. We will examine how they fit into the Android development ecosystem and the new risks to privacy and security that need to be considered. Our goal is to deter developers from building wearable apps, but to enable them to make strong security decisions throughout development.

   Speaker: Jack Mannino 

Jack is the CEO at nVisium and loves solving problems in the field of application security. With experience building, breaking, and securing software, he founded nVisium to invent new and more efficient ways of protecting software. Jack is a huge fan of contributing to open source projects, and leads the OWASP Northern Virginia chapter. In his spare time, he loves to kick around new frameworks and technologies, especially things that run Android. He’s also an optimistic Mets fan, although that optimism slowly fades away every summer.

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Please RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/OWASP-Los-Angeles/events/

Would you like to speak at an OWASP Los Angeles Meeting?

Call for Papers (CFP) is NOW OPEN. To speak at upcoming OWASP Los Angeles meetings please submit your BIO and talk abstract via email to Richard Greenberg OR Stuart Schwartz. The talk must be vendor neutral and its content be available under Creative Common 3.0 license.

Upcoming OWASP Meetings

Dec 17, 2014: Holiday Networking Event at the Downtown Daily Grill

January 26-28, 2015 OWASP AppSec California Summit -

Other Events

• ISSA-LA November lunch meeting at Taix French Restaurant - Wednesday, November 19, 2014 11:30am - 1:45pm

 Topic: Advanced security tips for end users
 Speaker: Cassio Goldschmidt

When it comes to tips on how end users can protect themselves from phishing, malicious websites and trojans, security professionals sometimes sound like a broken record regurgitating the same old advice. Today’s end users are more tech savvy and deserve to know more. The talk is about how to surf safely on the web and perform some basic level of analysis of suspicious files, phishing and how to achieve superior protection against zero days or evil twins. If you like LifeHacker style tips, this talk is for you.

Speaker: Cassio Goldschmidt Cassio Goldschmidt is Principal Information Security Leader at Digital Insight and a globally recognized application security practitioner. Cassio is also known for his contributions to Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode), the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)/SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security (SANS) Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors, along with contributing to the security education curriculum of numerous universities and industry certifications. Cassio was one of the three finalist in the (ISC)² Americas Information Security Leadership (ISLA) Awards 2011 in the Information Security Practitioner category and endowed with the special Community Service Star award during the same occasion. In 2012, Cassio was one of the finalists in the Web Application Security Person of the Year (WASPY) awards. He authored a chapter in the book “Information Assurance and Security Ethics in Complex Systems: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, holds a number of US patents and is a regular speaker at conferences worldwide.

Cassio holds a bachelor degree in computer science from Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande Do Sul, a masters degree in software engineering from Santa Clara University, and a masters of business administration from the University of Southern California.

Archives of Previous Meetings

2014 Meetings

2013 Meetings

2012 Meetings

2011 Meetings

2010 Meetings

2009 Meetings

2008 Meetings

Presentation Archive

Los Angeles Chapter

• Richard Greenberg -- Chapter Leader and President
• Tin Zaw -- Board Member
• Edward Bonver -- Board Member
• Mike Francis -- Board Member
• Stuart Schwartz -- Board Member
• Aaron Guzman -- Board Member
• Dave Wettenstein -- Board Member

Volunteers: Yev Avidon and Mikhael Felker
OWASP Wiki: Mike Francis
The Los Angeles chapter was founded by Cassio Goldschmidt.

The AppSec USA 2010 conference received rave reviews. Thanks to all the volunteers and great speakers who helped make it a success!

Web archive: http://2010.AppSecUSA.org

Videos: http://vimeo.com/user4863863/videos