OWASP Newsletter 17

OWASP Newsletter #17 (12-August-2008)
Welcome to the 17th edition of the OWASP Newsletter, featuring The New York City AppSec Conference.

As always, if you have any content to add to the next edition, please feel free to add it directly to its WIKI page OWASP Newsletter 18.

Kate Hartmann - OWASP Operations Director - Tel: 301-575-0197 - eMail: Kate.Hartmann@owasp.org

Featured Item: OWASP NYC 2008
OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Conference Schedule – Sept 24th - Sept 25th Full details In association with: WASC, NYM InfraGard, AITGlobal, NYC PHP, NYCBUG, ISACA, ISSA and Pace University your invited to (2) days of Seminars and Technology Pavilion from the world's best application security technology minds, (2) days of hardcore hands-on training, all held at Pace University, located in downtown New York City at One Pace Plaza New York, NY 10038. Event Fees: $350 for 2 days of seminars, $675 for 1-day training classes and $1,350 for 2-day courses. With capacity of 1000 folks from around the world, don't miss this event!

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Featured Item: India Conference
OWASP AppSec India Conference 2008



Featured Item: Israel Conference
OWASP AppSec Israel Conference 2008

= OWASP AppSec India Conference 2008 - August 20th-21st 2008 =

Featured Projects

 * Four new projects have been set up, namely:
 * OWASP EnDe Project - This tool is an encoder, decoder, converter, transformer, calculator, for various codings used in the wild wide web. Achim Hoffmann is the project leader.
 * OWASP Google Hacking Project - This is a Google SOAP Search API with Perl. Christian Heinrich is the project leader.
 * OWASP NetBouncer Project - This is secure by default centralised input/output validation library which combines security rules and business rules as well as escaping in the output level. Ferruh Mavituna is the project leader.
 * OWASP Open Review Project - A project to openly check open source libraries and software that are vital to most commercial and non-commercial apps around. Mario de Boer is the project leader.
 * The OWASP Summer of Code 2008 is doing its way up the ladder.
 * 34 SoC’s projects pages, the Current Season of Code Projects, have been set up.
 * 70 reviewers were matched with 34 SoC’s projects.
 * Having reached the stage of 50% completion, 7 project have already been reviewed, namely:
 * OWASP Internationalization Guidelines Project'''
 * OWASP Spanish Project
 * OWASP Ruby on Rails Security Guide v2
 * OWASP Source Code Review OWASP Projects
 * GTK+ GUI for w3af project
 * OWASP Live CD 2008 Project
 * OWASP Python Static Analysis

New Pages

 * Front Range OWASP Conference in Denver


 * How to Host a Conference

New Chapter Pages
Iran

Vietnam

Nigeria

Saudi Arabia

Alabama

Croatia

Hawaii

Updated Pages

 * TBD

Updated chapter pages:

 * TBD

New Documents & Presentations from chapters

 * TBD

For a complete list of chapter presentations see the online table of presentations.

OWASP references in the Media
OWASP Featured Article: Producing Producing Secure Software With Software Security Enhanced Processes, In-secure Magazine, Page 57-67

NSA: http://www.nsa.gov/snac/downloads_all.cfm?doc=%22Web%20Application%20Securit y%20Overview.pdf%22

FFIEC: http://www.occ.treas.gov/ftp/bulletin/2008-16.html

FTC: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/security.shtm

NIST: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html

DHS: https://buildsecurityin.us-cert.gov/swa/downloads/SwA_in_Acquisition.pdf