Rochester

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Welcome to the OWASP Rochester Local Chapter

Welcome to the local Rochester chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Ralph 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

• President: Andrea Cogliati
• Vice President: Ralph Durkee
• Treasurer: Andrea Cogliati
• Secretary: Appointed by Event Coordinator at each meeting.
• Event Coordinator: Andrea Cogliati
• Communications and Chapter OWASP Evangelist: Lou Leone
• Webmaster: Duane Peifer
• Mail List Administrator: Duane Peifer

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 meeting locations determined on a meeting by meeting basis and announced at least one week prior to the meeting.
• Beer and wings at Mac Gregor's Grill & Tap Room, 300 Jefferson Rd, NY 14623 Google Maps

If you or your organization is interested in donating meeting space please contact one of the local officers listed above. The space should be able to accommodate at least 15 people.

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

March Meeting

The next Rochester OWASP Chapter meeting will be held on March 15th at 5:30 pm.

The Rochester Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) in association with Rochester Chapter of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) invite you at the next chapter meeting.

When: March 15th, 2010, 5:30-8pm

Location: BlueTie, 220 Kenneth Drive, Rochester, NY (entrance from W Henrietta Rd or Lehigh Station Rd)

Title: Why Software is Still Insecure: Conclusions from a Ten-Year Study Ed Adams, Security Innovation

Abstract: Software security depends to a great degree on an organization's application security maturity (ASM). ASM can be charted on a continuum from the "panic scramble" through the "pit of despair" to the "security-enabled business." Kolodgy and Adams draw on 10 years of research to distill these application security concepts into a visual model that enables any organization to determine its maturity and chart a path of progress toward secure application development. The session will cover business drivers for application security, common mistakes, best practices, case studies, controls, prioritization, planning, measurement, and use of tools and training.

Speaker bio: Ed Adams is the President and CEO of Security Innovation, the independent authority on application security risk assessment, risk mitigation and education. He is a seasoned software executive with successful leadership experience in various-sized organizations that serve the IT security and quality assurance industries. As CEO, Mr. Adams applies his information security and business skills, as well as his pervasive industry experience in the Application Quality space, to direct software security experts in helping organizations understand the risks in their software systems and developing programs to mitigate those risks. His organization has delivered high-quality risk solutions to the most recognizable companies in the world including Microsoft, IBM, Visa, Fedex, ING, Sony, Symantec, State Farm and HP. Mr. Adams is the founder and business owner of the Application Security Industry Consortium, Inc. (AppSIC), an association of industry technologists and leaders establishing and defining cross- industry application security guidance and metrics. He is on the board of the National Information Security Group (NAISG). No stranger to the podium, Mr. Adams has presented to thousands at numerous seminars, software industry conferences, and private companies. He has contributed written and oral commentary for business and technology media outlets such as New England Cable News, Associated Press, CSO Magazine, SC Magazine, Boston Globe, CIO Update, Wall Street Reporter, Investors Business Daily, Optimize and CFO Magazine. Mr. Adams is in the process of writing a book titled “Information Security Management: Survival Guide”, which will be published by Wiley & Sons and is due out in November of 2008. He also has maintains a blog with CSO Magazine and is a columnist for CIO Update.

Free food and refreshments!

Please RSVP at [email protected] by Friday, March 12th

Past Events

February Meeting

Ralph Durkee presented a recap of the recent AppSec conference in DC.
Andrea Cogliati gave a talk on Identity Federation and Claim-based Security.

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

October Hackerfest 2009 Introduction to OWASP Rochester by Ralph Durkee, Lou Leone PPT

September OWASP 2009 Securing Apache Web Servers with Mod Security & CIS Benchmark by Ralph Durkee PPT Open Office

May OWASP 2009 Key Management - One Perspective by Lou Leone PPT

May IEEE 2009 Introduction to OWASP, presented by Ralph Durkee and Andrea Cogliati PPT

January 2009 Paranoid Programming Practices, by Lou Leone and Aaron Witt PPT

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