Category:Israel

Israel

OWASP top 10 in Hebrew initiated
1st chapter, XSS is available for review. The information is available off site due to Hebrew support issues.

Next Meeting at Checkpoint on January 28th 2009
(An Hebrew version can be found here)

The forthcoming OWASP Israel meeting will be held at Checkpoint, 5 Ha'Solelim St. Tel-Aviv. close to Hashalom Train Station, Tel-Aviv (map),

The program is:
 * Improving Web Application Firewall testing for better deployment in production network, Gregory Fresnais from BreakingPoint, visiting us from France
 * The challenge in implementing Web Application Firewalls is proper performance testing to validate true performance while ensuring that proper security policies are in place. The presentation will discuss ways to test the performance and the security of Web Application Firewall for better network capacity planning and proper deployment in production networks.
 * Gregory Fresnais serves as International Director of Business Development at BreakingPoint, a vendor of security testing solutions. Prior to joining BreakingPoint Systems, Gregory worked at Spirent Communications where he was the business development manager for Europe, Middle East & Africa


 * Web 2.0 Hacking, Nimrod Luria, Qrity
 * Not a future but a present, Web 2.0 technologies and services are here to stay. Prophecies of Web 2.0 insecurity are age old, but only now real threats such as the recent Twitter JSON bug start to emerge. Nimrod will prove by using real world stories and demos how insecure Web 2.0 applications can be.
 * Nimrod Luria is an acclaimed application security expert who has recently founded Qrity, a promising startup. Previously he was a member of Microsoft ACE team.


 * Wiki Security, Ofer Shezaf, Xiom
 * Wiki is a revolutionary tool for creation and sharing of content by a team. To be revolutionary it needs to make radical changes from prevailing paradigms, and one of the key changes is in its security model: Wiki forgo with traditional authorization for revision control. The presentation will discuss this new security model as well as what it required in regard to more traditional application security issues.
 * Ofer Shezaf is the leader of OWASP Israel. Ofer is the fonder of Xiom, a web application firewall research, services and support company. Previously Ofer served as VP of Product Management and VP of Security Research at Breach Security, a web application firewalls vendor.

See you there! To register please e-mail me at [mailto:ofer@shezaf.com ofer@shezaf.com].

Upcoming meetings

 * March 17th, 16:00 at F5 (24B Habarzel St., Ramat Hachayal, Tel-Aviv)
 * April 22nd, 16:00 at IBM (formerly Watchfire, 3 Sapir St. Herzliya Pituach)
 * September 2009, OWASP Israel 2009, At the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

All monthly meetings are between 4pm and 7pm. Program and detailed arrival instructions for each meeting would be published and sent to the list when ready. If you plan to come, please send an e-mail to ofer@shezaf.com.

If you would like to speak in OWASP Israel monthly meeting, let us know at ofer@shezaf.com

OWASP Israel 2009 Road map
As the economic atmosphere becomes unstable, the hacking economics flourish, which makes open source initiatives such as OWASP virtually the only option we have to try to win this battle. OWASP Israel goals for 2009 are:


 * A monthly meeting! We are looking for sponsors to host this meetings and presenters to speak in them.
 * Translating the OWASP top 10 to Hebrew.
 * Getting more Israelis to be involved in international OWASP projects.
 * The OWASP Israel conference 2009 around September.

If you have anything else on your mind, please speak up!

Previous OWASP Israel Conferences and Meetings

 * The OWASP Israel 2008 conference was held on September 14th at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya with 250 attendees.


 * OWASP Israel at the IDC Security Road Show
 * OWASP sponsored the IDC Security Road Show event in Israel on June 3rd 2008. Thanks for Iris Lev-Ari and Tomer Teller for the help in the OWASP booth.


 * OWASP Israel 2007 conference
 * the 1st official OWASP conference in Israel, was held on Dec 3rd 2007 at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. The conference really set itself as an event you must come to if you have anything to do with application security. [ pictures from the conference


 * 8th OWASP IL chapter meeting
 * The meeting was held at Watchfire on Septemner 5th 2007. Watchfire also sponsored the meeting. The meeting was part of OWASP week, a Worldwide OWASP one week of conferences on privacy in the 21st Century which is in turn OWASP contribution to the Global Security Week.


 * 2nd OWASP IL mini conference at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, May 21th 2007
 * [[Image:OWASP_IL_IDC.jpg|right]]The event was a huge success with nearly 200 people attending and 8 companies and organizations sponsoring the event (Breach Security, Checkpoint, Hacktics, Microsoft, Zend, 2Bsecure, F5 Networks and the Efi Arazi school of Computer Science at the IDC). [ pictures from the conference ]


 * 6th OWASP IL chapter meeting
 * The meeting was held at Breach Security on January 24th 2007 and was sponsored by Breach Security. Nearly 50 people attended the meeting.


 * OWASP IL mini conference at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, November 13th 2006
 * OWASP IL and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) held a half day conference on application security on Nov 13th 2006. The event marked the establishment of a new academic program on information security in the net era at IDC's Efi Arazi School of Computer Science. More than 90! people attended the conference, enjoyed professional catering and heard no less than 7 presentations. The meeting was sponsored by Breach Security and Applicure.

The meeting was help at Breach Security on July 26th 2005 and was sponsored by Breach Security.
 * 4th OWASP IL chapter meeting