Los Angeles

OWASP Los Angeles

Welcome to the Los Angeles chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Tin Zaw

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We will be using EventBrite for meeting RSVPs.

February meeting speaker is Alex Stamos, topic is Cloud Computing Security. It is an updated talk of the one he presented at OWASP meeting and ISSA-LA conference last year.

It will be hosted at AT&T Interactive in Glendale. I will send out directions and (free) parking information. It will be on February 24 (NOT February 17 as usual) because of my travel schedule. I hope this will give a chance for those on east side of downtown to come to OWASP meeting.

March meeting will be at Symantec in Culver City. Speaker is Mike Schrenk, author of "Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers" It will be on March 17.

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 7:00PM

• Cloud Computing Security: Raining on the Trendy New Parade

  Meeting Location
  AT&T Interactive
  611 N. Brand Blvd., 5th Floor
  Glendale, CA

  Please RSVP at Eventbrite.

Cloud computing is an unstoppable meme at the CIO level, and will dominate corporate IT planning for the next several years. Although they do offer the promise of cost savings for many organizations, the basic ideas behind abstracting out the corporate datacenter greatly complicates the tasks of securing and auditing these systems. While there has been excellent research into low-level hypervisor and virtualization bugs, there has been little public discussion of the “big picture” problems for cloud computing. These include virtualized network devices, browser same-origin issues, credential management and many interesting legal challenges.

Our goal with this talk will be to explore the different attack scenarios that exist in the cloud computing world and to provide a comparison between the security models of the leading cloud computing platforms. We will discuss how current attacks against applications and infrastructure are changed with cloud computing, as well as introduce the audience to new types of vulnerabilities that are unique to cloud computing. Attendees will learn how to analyze the threat posed to them by cloud computing platforms as either providers or consumers of software built on these new platforms. Our platforms for discussion include Salesforce.com, Google Apps, Microsoft Office Live, Google AppEngine, Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2, and Sun.

Alex Stamos is a founding partner of iSEC Partners, a strategic digital security organization. Alex is an experienced security engineer and consultant specializing in application security and securing large infrastructures, and has taught multiple classes in network and application security.

He is a leading researcher in the field of web application and web services security and has been a featured speaker at top industry conferences such as Black Hat, CanSecWest, DefCon, SyScan, Microsoft BlueHat and OWASP App Sec.

He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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 Tin Zaw. When we accept your talk, it will be required to use the Powerpoint OWASP Template

Archives of Previous Meetings

A list of previous presentations conducted at the Los Angeles Chapter can be found here.

Los Angeles Chapter

• Tin Zaw -- Chapter Leader and Chair
• Cassio Goldschmidt -- Board Member
• Richard Greenberg -- Board Member