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Please note that for informal meetings at Mac Gregor's, everybody needs to pay for their own food and drinks.
 
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November meeting has been postponed to December 1st, 6pm at Bryant & Stratton College. We'll have a brief discussion around the news from the OWASP Worldwide Summit and a video from OWASP NYC AppSec conference: "Web Intrusion Detection with ModSecurity" by Ivan Ristic.
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January meeting has been postponed to '''January 26th, 6pm''' at Bryant & Stratton College.
  
'''FREE PIZZA, courtesy of Durkee Consulting, Inc.'''
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'''Title:''' Paranoid Programming Practices
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"It’s not a matter of whether you’re paranoid or not. It’s a matter of whether you’re paranoid enough."
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- Unknown.  (He wouldn’t give me his name…)
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'''Abstract:''' This presentation provides an overview of Policy Frameworks and their importance to formalizing secure programming practices within a software development organization.  It also covers the primary elements of Secure Programming Practices including discussions on attackers, tenants, architectures, and principles.  This presentation is focused towards OWASP and Payment Card Industries’ Data Security Specification (PCI DSS) audiences and concludes with a review of the “Top 10” vulnerabilities along OWASP classifications.
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'''Presenter:''' Lou Leone
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Lou Leone is a Cognitive Science graduate from the University of Rochester.  He is founder of Telperion Development Corp. and has provided services for the utility and telecommunications industries and for Rochester’s ever present Kodak and Xerox.  He had a brief stint as the VP of Technology for PaeTec Communications, Inc. and is presently the VP of Technology Development for UniteU Technologies Inc.  Over years of personally writing vast swaths of absolutely terrible code, he has developed a fine appreciation of the art of software architecture and the beauty of implementation excellence.
  
 
== Past Events ==
 
== Past Events ==

Revision as of 16:10, 9 January 2009

Welcome to the OWASP Rochester Local Chapter

Welcome to the local Rochester chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Ralf Durkee

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Participation

OWASP chapter meetings are free and open to anyone interested in application security. We encourage members to give presentations on specific topics and to contribute to the local chapter by sharing their knowledge with others. Prior to participating with OWASP please review the Chapter Rules.

The Rochester chapter has two mailing lists: one for announcements and one for general discussion. The announce list is for official communications (e.g meeting announcements, web site updates, etc). The discussion list is for general participation and everyone is encouraged to post. The announce mailing list can be found here. The discussion mailing list can be found here. You can also review the announce and discussion e-mail archives to see what folks have been talking about. Please make sure you are subscribed to announce to receive any last minute meeting info.

Local Officers

Meeting Dates & Location

Dates: The third Monday of every month, starting at 6:00 PM.

Types of events: Formal meeting (featuring a presentation) in odd numbered months, informal event (open forum with beer and wings) in even numbered months

Locations:

  • Formal meetings at 1225 Jefferson Rd, Rochester, NY 14623 (near I-390) Google Maps
  • Beer and wings at Mac Gregor's Grill & Tap Room, 300 Jefferson Rd, NY 14623 Google Maps

Formal meeting space is graciously offered by Bryant & Stratton College Enter the Frontier Commons plaza, near the Post Office. Towards the right, rear of the plaza is the PSC (Professional Skills Center) door, which is to the left of the main Bryant & Stratton entrance door. There will be a sign on the door indicating the room in which we will meet.

Please note that for informal meetings at Mac Gregor's, everybody needs to pay for their own food and drinks.

January Meeting Details

January meeting has been postponed to January 26th, 6pm at Bryant & Stratton College.

Title: Paranoid Programming Practices

"It’s not a matter of whether you’re paranoid or not. It’s a matter of whether you’re paranoid enough." - Unknown. (He wouldn’t give me his name…)

Abstract: This presentation provides an overview of Policy Frameworks and their importance to formalizing secure programming practices within a software development organization. It also covers the primary elements of Secure Programming Practices including discussions on attackers, tenants, architectures, and principles. This presentation is focused towards OWASP and Payment Card Industries’ Data Security Specification (PCI DSS) audiences and concludes with a review of the “Top 10” vulnerabilities along OWASP classifications.

Presenter: Lou Leone

Lou Leone is a Cognitive Science graduate from the University of Rochester. He is founder of Telperion Development Corp. and has provided services for the utility and telecommunications industries and for Rochester’s ever present Kodak and Xerox. He had a brief stint as the VP of Technology for PaeTec Communications, Inc. and is presently the VP of Technology Development for UniteU Technologies Inc. Over years of personally writing vast swaths of absolutely terrible code, he has developed a fine appreciation of the art of software architecture and the beauty of implementation excellence.

Past Events

Oct 29-30 2008 - Rochester Security Summit 2008
The Rochester OWASP chapter in partnership with other Rochester institutions is organizing the third annual Rochester Security Summit Oct 29-30 during National Cyber Security Awareness Month. This year we'll have a full day dedicated to application security and we are are working to bring to Rochester the best national acclaimed speakers.

Visit Rochester Security Summit Site for details.

Past Presentations

May 2008 Database Encryption, by Ralf Durkee PPT

January 2008 SQL Injection and Dynamic SQL, by Andrea Cogliati ZIP

September 2007 2007 OWASP Top 10 Most Critical Web Application Security Vulnerabilities, by Ralph Durkee PowerPoint

October 2006 The first of the OWASP top ten: unvalidated input, by Steve Buck. PowerPoint

April 2006 PGP: Encryption for e-mail and web applications, by Ralph Durkee PDF

February 2006 Identity Theft, Phishing and Pharming, by Danny Allan PDF

February 2006 Secure e-mail, by Thomas Bullinger PDF

January 2006 PCI Compliance, by Pat Massey, Ralf Durkee, Maureen Baran PDF

September 2005 Two Factor Authentication for Java Applications with Client Certificates, by Ralf Durkee PDF Open Office

April 2005 Avoiding Backend Exploitation of Mail Forms, by Max Kessler PowerPoint Open Office

March 2005 Bringing Two-Factor Authentication to Web Applications, by Michael Starks PowerPoint Open Office

February 2005 Insecure Storage, by Chris Karr PowerPoint

January 2005 Access Control and Session Mgmnt, by Steve Buck PowerPoint Open Office

November 2004 Intro to OWASP by Ralf Durkee. Demonstration of SQL Injection attack and prevention, by Paul Cupo PowerPoint