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User:Simon Bennetts
Simon Bennetts (a.k.a. Psiinon) has been developing web applications since 1997, and strongly believes that you cannot build secure web applications without knowing how to attack them.
He works for Mozilla as part of their Security Team.
Some of the projects Simon works on:
- OWASP Zed Attack Proxy project lead
- OWASP Vulnerable Web Applications Directory Project joint project lead
- Mozilla Zest project lead
- Mozilla Plug-n-Hack joint project lead
- Bodge It Store project lead
- OWASP Web Application Security Testing Cheat Sheet joint author
- OWASP AppSensor contributor
- wavsep contributor
- OWASP Data Exchange Format project lead (currently inactive)
For full details of Simon's open source contributions see Ohloh
Simon has won the WASPY Award in the Best Project Leader category in both 2013 and 2014
To see Simon's wiki contributions, click here.
He also started the OWASP Manchester chapter.
Simon has a B.Sc in Computing and Information Systems from Manchester University.
Online details:
- LinkedIn: Simon Bennetts
- Open HUB: psiinon - Which details Simon's open source contributions
- GitHub: psiinon
- SlideShare: psiinon
Contact details:
- Email address.
- Twitter: @psiinon
Interviews:
- 2015/03 FLOSS Weekly 329: OWASP ZAP
- 2013/11 OWASP Podcast interview at AppSec USA 2013
- 2013/11 Mozilla's web security guru talks open source (originally published in Linux Format magazine)
Talks:
- 2013/11/20 OWASP New York AppSec USA ZAP Innovations - slides, video
- 2013/10/31 OWASP Limerick Day OWASP ZAP - Whats even newer - slides
- 2013/10/17 JoinSEC London An Introduction to the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy - slides
- 2013/09/23 OWASP Hamburg AppSec EU ZAP Innovations - slides, video
- 2013/02/02 FOSDEM. Practical Security for developers, using OWASP ZAP - video
- 2012/11/07 OWASP German Day. The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy - slides
- 2012/09/12 OWASP East Midlands chapter meeting. The OWASP Top Ten - slides
- 2012/09/11 OWASP Manchester chapter meeting. The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy - slides (same as for Dublin;)
- 2012/09/06 OWASP Dublin AppSec. The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy - slides
- 2012/04/14 OWASP Sydney AppSec AsiaPac. The Zed Attack Proxy - slides
- 2012/02/01 OWASP Manchester chapter meeting. The OWASP Top Ten - slides
- 2011/10/25 OWASP Leeds chapter meeting. An introduction to ZAP
- 2011/09/23 OWASP Minneapolis AppSec USA. An introduction to ZAP - slides - video
- 2011/06/10 OWASP Dublin AppSec EU. An introduction to ZAP
- 2011/02/26 Linux User Group. An introduction to OWASP, the top 10 and ZAP
- 2010/12/08 OWASP Leeds chapter meeting. An introduction to ZAP
Courses run:
- 2013/11/21 OWASP New York AppSec USA 4 hour ZAP Hackathon - slides
- 2011/10/20 OWASP Dublin chapter. 2 hour course: The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy
