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Project Manager: 2014 Objectives

OWASP PROJECTS

Primary Goal: Continue to evolve the OWASP Projects Infrastructure by developing operational systems that facilitate Leader participation and innovation.

Subgoal 1: Continue to work on the operational projects platform with the aim of developing it to be more self sufficient for Leaders.

• Recruit a Projects Support Intern.
• Bring all of the project repositories into Ohloh.
• Continue to develop the Project Portal for Leaders.
• Monitor and update the Project Page with relevant information on a weekly basis.
• Continue to produce weekly and quarterly information reports.
• Organize a monthly webinar about an OWASP Project.
• Produce more substantial software security/projects articles for our quarterly Connector.
• Migrate all of the Project wiki pages to the new template
• Facilitate project page compliance with new Sponsorship Guidelines.
• Facilitate project product compliance with new Sponsorship Guidelines
• Develop marketing and communications pieces that promote: Benefits of Having an OWASP Project; How to start a project; Project Lifecycle; and Review Process.
• Have one Project Leader meeting a month.
• Facilitate OWASP contributions to the Apple Developer Program.
• Identify & promote cross-project collaboration to move clusters of projects forward, with e.g. work groups that work on a certain domain.
• Start a task force of people with spare cycles that can help projects that need extra man-power of are falling behind in delivery of new releases (especially the flag ship projects)
• Ask project leaders to create & give project related training or contribute to the OWASP trainings.
• Push for establishment of completion dates for key tasks for select projects.

Subgoal 2: Bring more Project Leaders together in 2014.

• Work towards getting at least 2 projects represented at every Global AppSec Conference in 2014.
• Plan a Project Summit Event in 2014
• Work on developing Project Leader Workshop module that can be given when I am not present.

Subgoal 3: Solidify the Projects Review Process.

• Develop a pragmatic method of doing project reviews.
• Test the review process developed at the 2013 Summit
• Finish reviewing the projects that have specifically asked for review.
• Review the Flagship Projects.
• Review the Lab Projects.
• Review the Incubator Projects.
• Report on the findings and outcomes.
• Document the system so it can be reproduced. (This will probably be a long document/set of instructions and lessons learned).

Subgoal 4: Design a more sustainable revenue stream using the Project’s IP.

• In depth market research to determine niche opportunities.
• Come up with at least 4 different potential opportunities based on research.
• Develop an implementation plan.

OWASP Project Manager Weekly Reports

• Project Manager Report: December 06 2013
• Project Manager Report: December 13 2013
• Project Manager Report: December 20 2013
• Project Manager Report: January 10 2014
• Project Manager Report: January 17 2014
• Project Manager Report: January 25 2014
• Project Manager Report: January 31 2014
• Project Manager Report: February 07 2014
• Project Manager Report: February 16 2014

• Project Leader Workshop Overview
  • The project leader workshop went very well during AppSec USA.
  • There was lots of discussion brought on by the project leaders.
  • There were a few potential project leaders as well.
  • The forum went well with a presentation of information followed by discussion.
  • It was also important to allow Leaders to interrupt the talk to ask questions.
  • I felt the way it was organized should be used as a framework for future project leader workshops.
  • 45 minutes was not enough as well.
  • I suggest leaving 1 hour and 30 minutes for the session.

• 2013 Project Summit Overview
  • I believe the project summit was a great success.
  • I was a bit nervous about it as I had never even done one before.
  • However, a good amount of Leaders helped me put this together, and it is thanks to them that this summit was such a great success.
  • There were many lessons learned, and I am working towards putting together a post summit document for the community.

• Women in AppSec: AppSec USA 2013 Overview
  • I think the Women in AppSec program went very well at AppSec USA.
  • Both winners let me know that they really enjoyed themselves, and they were glad to participate in the panel.
  • Kait, our Grants and Fundraising intern, kindly helped me manage the Women in AppSec schedules and timetables at the conference.
  • We are not working on post event administration for the program.

• OWASP Marketing
  • I am glad to say that the marketing materials have now all been delivered.
  • Patrick is in the process of delivering the final invoice for work completed.

• Project Guidelines
  • There was a good amount of discussion regarding the project guidelines during the conference and at the board meeting.
  • There are a few changes to make, and I am working on getting these done by the end of this week.

• Daily Project based queries and requests
  • This has not changed much since I began the post: questions are very similar in nature.
  • Global AppSec questions.
  • Funding queries.
  • Travel availability.
  • Project based administrative help.
  • Project status information.
  • Several project donation questions.
  • Marketing questions.
  • Grant funding questions.
  • OWASP social media updates.
  • What's happening with projects, questions.

General Awards

• OWASP OWTF Project: Brucon 5x5 Award

1. Amount: €5,000.00 (Approx. $6,670.00)
2. Status: Awarded. Congratulations, Abraham Aranguren and all involved in the project, for your award.

Proposals Awarded

• OWASP Guidebooks Proposal

1. Amount: $25,000 USD
2. Status: Awarded. The first payment has been allocated to our project budgets. The second invoice has now been sent to Georgia Tech and payment has been received.
3. OWASP Development Guide Plan
4. OWASP Testing Guide Plan
5. OWASP Code Review Guide Plan

• Google Grants Proposal

1. Amount: $120,000 USD in Adwords Funds
2. Status: Awarded.
3. Note: There is no link to show the proposal for this grant. There was a form that was submitted to Google, and we did not receive a record of this form.
4. Google Grants Usage Report

• Google Summer of Code

1. Amount: $5,500
2. Status: Awarded

• Projects breakdown:
  • 4 ZAP Projects: $2,000
  • 4 OWTF Projects: $2,000
  • 1 PHP Security Project: $500
  • 1 Hackademics Project: $500
  • 1 Modsecurity Project: $500
  • Travel Expenses: $1,896.38 (Reimbursement)
  • Note: Big thank you to Fabio Cerullo for coordinating and managing this award.

• OWASP AppSensor Grant Proposal

1. Amount: $15,000 USD
2. Status: Awarded.

• Total Funds Awarded: $172,170 USD for 2013.

Proposals Denied

• European Commission Grant Proposal

1. Amount: €250,000
2. Status: Denied.

• OWASP OpenSAMM Grant Proposal

1. Amount: $112,000 USD
2. Status: Denied

• OWASP ESAPI Grant Proposal

1. Amount: $25,000 USD
2. Status: Denied

• OWASP ModSecurity CRS Proposal

1. Amount: $30,000 USD
2. Status: Denied

• OWASP OWTF Grant Proposal

1. Amount: $55,800 USD
2. Status: Denied

Current Project Funds

• Chapter and Individual Project Funds
• Project Reboot 2012 Information
• Q1 2013: Funds Allocated to Projects
• Q2 2013: Funds Allocated to Projects
• Q3 2013: Funds Allocated to Projects
• Q4 2013: Funds Allocated to Projects

CISO Guide Survey Report 2013 V1.0 Released

OWASP CISO Survey Report 2013 Version 1.0

Among application security stakeholders, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), are responsible for application security from governance, compliance and risk perspectives. The OWASP CISO Survey provides tactical intelligence about security risks and best practices to help CISOs manage application security programs according to their own roles, responsibilities, perspectives and needs. It also complements nicely with its sister project, the Application Security Guide For CISOs.

• Report: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_CISO_Survey
• PDF Download: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/File:Owasp-ciso-report-2013-1.0.pdf

Please share and spread the word!

OWASP Research Book Project

The OWASP Research Book Project is a new Incubator project that aims to collect and consolidate a collection of research papers that have been donated to OWASP. Ahmed Neil is currently looking for contributors and authors to help him work on his idea. He hopes to be able to move this project forward as soon as he is able to gather some interest in the project. If you are interested, please contact Ahmed Neil ([email protected]).

Webinar Opportunity for OWASP Project Leaders

We are still in need for Project Leaders to showcase their projects via our Webinar series. The webinars will be held every third (3) Wednesday of every month at 10am EST. Below are the dates when each webinar will be held, and you can indicate the month if you are interested:

• February 19
• March 19
• April 16: Cam Morris
• May 21
• June 18
• July 16
• August 20
• September 17
• October 15
• November 19
• December 17

Please reach out to Samantha Groves ([email protected]) if you are interested in giving a 45 minute webinar on your OWASP Project.

Project Review Assistance Required

Hello Leaders,

We are still in need of more survey results. We would like to ask that you take a bit of time to fill in a short survey that we will use to assess the Usability and Value of each project to its users and the community.

You can find the assessment survey here: Project Usability and Value Assessment

Below are the projects we are currently focusing on assessing:

• OWASP Cheat Sheets Project
• OWASP Java HTML Sanitizer Project
• Xenotix XSS Exploit Framework
• OWASP Cornucopia Project
• OWASP Java Encoder Project
• All OWASP Flagship Projects

Please note that this is only one part of the full assessment for each project. The more responses we can get for each project, the better. Please only complete the assessment if you are familiar with the project, or if you have time to familiarize yourself with the project. Thank you to those of you who have submitted your responses. Your assistance is very much appreciated.

Please reach out to me if you have any questions.

Thank you for your assistance, Leaders.

Samantha Groves, OWASP Projects Manager