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OWASP Los Angeles Local Chapter
Welcome to the local Los Angeles chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Cassio Goldschmidt
Participation
Local OWASP Chapter meetings are FREE and OPEN to anyone interested in learning more about application security. We encourage chapter members to share knowledge via hands-on training and presentations of specific OWASP projects and vendor agnostic security research topics. Speakers should review the standard speaker agreement and utilize the OWASP Powerpoint template. As a 501(3)c non-profit association donations are encouraged of meeting space and/or refreshments and tax-deductible donations can be made online using the below donation button. Prior to participating with OWASP please review the Chapter Rules and the OWASP Overview Slides.
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Upcoming Chapter Meetings
Meeting Location Symantec Corporation 900 Corporate Pointe Culver City, CA 90230 Laguna Conference Room
Thursday, August 20th, 2009 7:30PM
- The Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM)
The Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) (http://www.opensamm.org)
is a flexible and prescriptive framework for building security into a
software development organization. Covering more than typical
SDLC-based models for security, SAMM enables organizations to
self-assess their security assurance program and then use recommended
roadmaps to improve in a way that's aligned to the specific risks
facing the organization. Beyond that, SAMM enables creation of
scorecards for an organization's effectiveness at secure software
development throughout the typical governance, development, and
deployment business functions. Scorecards also enable management
within an organization to demonstrate quantitative improvements
through iterations of building a security assurance program. This
workshop will introduce the SAMM framework and walk through useful
activities such as assessing an assurance program, mapping an existing
organization to a recommended roadmap, and iteratively building an
assurance program. Time allowing, additional case studies will also be
discussed. SAMM is an open and free project and has recently been added
under the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation.
Pravir Chandra is Director of Strategic Services at Fortify Software
and works with clients on software security assurance programs.
Pravir is recognized for his expertise in software security, code
analysis, and his ability to strategically apply technical knowledge.
Prior to Fortify, he was a Principal Consultant affiliated with
Cigital and led large software security programs at Fortune 500
companies. Pravir Co-Founded Secure Software, Inc. and was Chief
Security Architect prior to its acquisition by Fortify. He recently
created and led the Open Software Assurance Maturity Model (OpenSAMM)
project with the OWASP Foundation, leads the OWASP CLASP project, and
also serves as member of the OWASP Global Projects Committee. Pravir
is author of the book Network Security with OpenSSL.
Would you like to speak at an OWASP Los Angeles Meeting?
Call for Papers (CFP) is NOW OPEN ~ to submit educational topic for upcoming meeting please submit your BIO and talk abstract via email to Cassio Goldschmidt. When accepted it will be required to use the following powerpoint OWASP Template
This page provides a list of previous presentations conducted at the Los Angeles Chapter.

