Washington DC

Welcome to the OWASP Washington, DC-Maryland Local Chapter
The original DC Chapter was founded in June 2004 by [mailto:jeff.williams@owasp.org Jeff Williams] and has had members from Virginia to Delaware. In April 2005 a new chapter, DC-Virginia, was formed and the DC Chapter was renamed to DC-Maryland. The two are sister chapters with common members and shared discourse. The chapters meet in opposite halves of the month to facilitate this relationship.

Chapter meetings are held several times a year, typically in the offices of our sponsor. Please subscribe to the mailing list for meeting announcements. You can also check out the archives of this page here Washington_DC Archives.

Our chapter is sponsored by Aspect Security.

Participation
OWASP Local Chapter meetings are free and open. Our chapter's meetings are informal and encourage open discussion of all aspects of application security. Anyone in our area interested in web application security is welcome to attend. We encourage attendees to give short presentations about specific topics. If you would like to make a presentation, or have any questions about the DC-Maryland Chapter, send an email to one of the chapter co-chairs or the [mailto:owasp-washington__AT__lists.owasp.org Mailing List].

Chapter Co-Chairs

[mailto:Rex.Booth__AT__GT.com Rex Booth]

[mailto:mark.bristow.lists__AT___gmail.com Mark Bristow]

[mailto:dougwilson.lists__AT__gmail.com Doug Wilson]

The new chapter Co-Chairs would like to extend our deepest thanks to Andre Ludwig for serving as the chapter chair for the the past 3 years. You've done a great job Dre and we hope to continue to see you at chapter meetings.

We want your comments!!!

We are currently running a survey to help improve the chapter. Please take a minute to fill out The Survey (It's only 7 questions).

Local News
August 20th 6:30pm OWASP Meeting, Washington DC

This month we will be holding our meeting at the DC offices of Deloitte & Touche ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1001+G+ST+NW+washington+dc 1001 G St NW Washington DC 20001).

The meeting will start at 1830. Upon arriving, please go to the 9th floor and sign in, someone will escort you to the meeting location, Rm. 8S026. If you are late and can not get in, please call 202.270.8715.

This month, our agenda is as follows:


 * Introduction to OWASP, Rex Booth
 * The Big Picture: Web Risks and Assessments Beyond Scanning, Matt Fisher
 * Security Conference Review: Black Hat & DefCon (group discussion)
 * Open floor

Matt's talk will focus on the need to risk and threat model software and pick appropriate peoples, tools, and testing techniques to test against the threat model. In today's resource-constrained market many organizations are simply turning to automation to test their software security without truly understanding the limitations. This talk will discuss some of the broader threat cases, testing techniques for them, and whether current state of the industry technology is effective against them.

July 23rd 6:30pm OWASP Meeting, Washington DC (Alexandria)

This month we will be holding our meeting at the Alexandria offices of Grant Thornton (333 John Carlyle Street Suite 500 Alexandria VA).

The meeting will start at 1830. If you are late and can not get in, please call 703.785.9390.

The presentation for this meeting will be a reprise of Mark and Doug's Web Application Security and Why It Matters talk, which was suggested/requested at the last meeting in Alexandria. The presentation will cover the topics of the OWASP Top 10 and include demonstrations of exploits of the Top 5. This is geared towards newcomers to OWASP, but we hope that all members in the DC Metro area will attend if they have a chance. We also hope to give the DC crowd a "state of the chapter" like we did at the last meeting Columbia, and then open discussion of current events and/or any particular topics of interest will follow.

The presentation can be found here.

June 11th 6:30pm OWASP Meeting, Columbia MD

This month we will be holding our meeting in Columbia MD at Aspect Securities offices (9175 Guilford Rd, Ste 300, Columbia, MD 21046). The meeting will start at 1830. If you are late to the meeting and can not get in the door please call 301-604-4882, or hack the door. The meeting will focus on HTTP Verb Tampering and authentication bypass with other topics as we have time.

March 20th 6pm OWASP Meeting, Columbia MD

This month we will be holding our meeting in Columbia MD at Aspect Securities offices (address below). The meeting will start at 6pm and last to around 9pm or so (depends on the crowd).

The topic for the meeting will be presentation by Jeff Williams on his Enterprise Security API project. (quick overview below)

Securing Java EE Applications with the OWASP Enterprise Security API (ESAPI)

Jeff Williams, the CEO of Aspect Security and the volunteer Chair of the OWASP Foundation, will present the new OWASP Project he is leading -- the OWASP Enterprise Security API (ESAPI). ESAPI is an API and reference implementation designed to make it as easy as possible for web developers to address the most common web application security vulnerabilities, including those discussed in the OWASP Top Ten.

ESAPI defines a simple, well-structured, and obvious interface to all the classes and methods a developer needs to build a secure web application, and comes with a reference implementation and over 600 test cases. ESAPI includes numerous new security mechanisms that are simply not present in Java EE today, including intrusion detection! Correctness, completeness, and simplicity are the three primary design goals of ESAPI.

ESAPI provides a worked example of most security challenges faced by  enterprise developers. Developers, architects, and application security specialists can use ESAPI as a baseline for what is expected in their applications. This presentation will cover the basic structure of the API, why using it represents a significant reduction in application security costs, and even why it makes projects more agile.

Look forward to seeing everyone there, so dont forget to set your outlook/entourage/notes calendars!

Location information:

Aspect Security, Inc.  9175 Guilford Road, Suite 300 Columbia, MD 21046-2565 Main: 301-604-4882

February 5th 6pm Meeting, New Location!

This meeting will be held at a new location thanks to a new host Grant Thorton LLP.

Presentations

I will be giving a presentation on the intersection between web application security and the attackers mindset. The purpose of which is    to drill home that web application security isnt just about SQL Injection, XSS, XSRF, and "web application compromises. My approach     will be to outline various methods of abusing web applications to gain a     foot holds onto networks as well as leveraging vuln's to "repurpose"     existing web applications to the attackers whim.   The ultimate goal of     this presentation is to drill home the fact that web applications (and     their insecurities) provide an attacker an amazing attack surface to     leverage for various purposes, purposes which I will talk about.    A few quick highlights include discussions on PHP/ASP* back door shells,     PHP based IRC bots, XSS based Attack frameworks, Flash based attack     frameworks, IDS evasion etc.

Location details

Location: 333 John Carlyle St  Alexandria, VA 22314

The Day After

I want to thank everyone who attended as well as the two organizations that made yesterdays LIVE-O mini-con possible. If it was not for these two organizations the event would not have been nearly as enjoyable as it was.

MITRE HoneyClient Project Grant Thornton Aspect Security

I would also like to thank the presenters who put together the interesting topics and presented them to our chapter.

For all the presentations, notes, and thoughts of the attendee's and presenters you can use the following link.

Washington_DC_LIVE-O

Thursday Sept 6th LIVE O minicon!!

Well it looks like I have been able to finally secure a location for the LIVEO mini conference. The meeting will be held at 1:00pm at MITRE's McLean Va Offices in the MITRE 1 Building. (map to the location below)

If you haven't already signed up you must do so ahead of time! Feel free to pass this link around to coworkers or friends who may be interested in attending. Seating is limited to 75 people, and as such we will not be able to take any more people once we have reached that limit. If you are not able to come after signing up please use the same link to cancel your RSVP for the meeting. This will free up a seat for someone else to enjoy the awe inspiring presentations we have lined up. ;)

List of presentations

Honeyclients and Malicious Web Servers - Kathy Wang - Mitre A malcode perspective on web application privacy - Blake Hartstein - iDefense Practical Web Privacy with Firefox - Chuck Willis- Mandiant A sneak peak at Jeff's new "Enterprise Security API" - Jeff Williams - Aspect Security/OWASP Digital Rights Management - James Stibbards - Cloakware

Please make sure to have your ID with you for checking in when you arrive.

Map/Directions to Mini Con location http://www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre1_map.html

Thursday August 23rd 6pm Location Aspect Security, Columbia MD

I will be giving a presentation outlining some of the various "Rich Interactive Application" (RIA's) Frameworks that are being developed.

Here is the rough draft of the presentation.

Topics to go over (My unofficial plan- YTBD) Offline Web Application frameworks : The fifth horseman? I will be going over the basics of the four major "off line web app frameworks" (aka webocalypse) Adobe AIR Google Gears Microsoft Silverlight Sun JavaFX Try to go over the differences of each framework, where they fit, and why I think they suck Point out potential weaknesses of each framework Write a group letter to all the developers explaining the coming "webocalypse" (Im joking of course)

Location Information

Aspect is located at 9175 Guilford Road (Suite 300) in Columbia. Driving directions are:

>From I-95:

* Exit 38 B : Rt. 32 West towards Columbia (1.5 miles) * Take the Broken Land Parkway exit * Turn left off the ramp onto Broken Land Parkway * Turn left at the light onto Guilford Road (0.5 miles)

After a sharp left, enter the parking lot at 9175 Guilford Road. [Note: if you go under the bridge, you've gone too far]

We're on the third floor in Suite 300

Wednesday March 28th 6pm Columbia, MD

This meeting will be held at Aspect Security's offices in Columbia MD. The address is below. Food: As usual, geek food will be provided. This usually means pizza and soda.

Getting there: Aspect is located at 9175 Guilford Road (Suite 300) in Columbia. Driving directions are:

>From I-95:

* Exit 38 B : Rt. 32 West towards Columbia (1.5 miles) * Take the Broken Land Parkway exit * Turn left off the ramp onto Broken Land Parkway * Turn left at the light onto Guilford Road (0.5 miles)

After a sharp left, enter the parking lot at 9175 Guilford Road. [Note: if you go under the bridge, you've gone too far]

We're on the third floor in Suite 300

Meeting: Feburary 15th 6PM

Andrew van der stock will be giving a presentation on the following three topics. OWASP Top 10 2007 Spring of Code 2007 an update on OWASP Guide 3.0 status

Watch this space as it will be updated as the meeting nears.

Location information

Our hosts have asked that if you are to show up for the meeting that you patiently wait in the first floor lobby for someone to escort you into the conference room that we will be using.

Here is the address:

SRA Locations


 * Arlington Center (NEW! Opened 7/17/06)
 * 3434 Washington Boulevard
 * Arlington, VA 22201-4508
 * Phone: (703) 284-5000


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