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Gunnar Peterson - Breaking Web Services
Handout for the presentation (PDF)

Topic Overview
SOA and Web services promise wonderful interoperability, but distributed systems create lots of room for fantastic failures. This session will explore the gory details of unique vulnerabilities at each layer of the SOA stack - from the WSDL interfaces to XML processing (XSD, XPath and XQuery), to the implementation languages liike Java and C#, to new security standards like WS-Security and SAML.

Gunnar gave this talk with Brian Chess at the 2008 RSA Conference.

Speaker Bio
Gunnar Peterson is a Managing Principal at Arctec Group focused on architecture consulting and training. Peterson is an Associate Editor for IEEE Security & Privacy Journal; leads the OWASP XML Security Gateway Evaluation Criteria project; and contributor to the SEI and DHS Build Security In portal on software security. He maintains a blog at http://1raindrop.typepad.com.

Location
Minneapolis Community and Technical College

1501 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis

Whitney Center, Room L3100 (3rd Floor)

Map: http://www.minneapolis.edu/campusmaps/index.cfm

Park in the ramp (R) - move through the T building (T) and go to Whitney Hall (L).

Agenda:
6:00 pm - Introduction and Optional sign-in for CISSP credits 6:10 pm - Welcome: OWASP chapter updates (Kuai Hinojosa) 6:20 pm – Breaking Web Services (Gunnar Peterson) 7:55 pm – Break 8:05 pm – Book Giveaway 8:10 pm - Upcoming Events reminder and meeting wrap – up

Thank You
Center for Strategic Information Technology and Security for sponsoring our location.

Integral will be sponsoring refreshments for the meeting.

We are still looking for a book give-away sponsor and for sponsors for upcoming meetings. Call Lorna at 651-338-0243 if you need directions or have questions.

September Meeting: Wednesday September 3rd
Brian Chess (Fortify Software)

Creating secure code requires more than just good intentions. Programmers need to know how to make their code safe in an almost infinite number of scenarios and configurations. Static source code analysis gives users the ability to review their work with a fine tooth comb and uncover the kinds of errors that lead directly to vulnerabilities. This talk frames the software security problem and shows how static analysis is part of the solution. Highlights include: We will look at how static analysis works, how to integrate it into the software development processes, and how to make the most of it during security code review.
 * The most common security short-cuts and why they lead to security failures
 * Why programmers are in the best position to get security right
 * Where to look for security problems
 * How static analysis helps
 * The critical attributes and algorithms that make or break a static analysis tool

Other Upcoming Speakers:
Gary McGraw - We are in the process of organizing a mini conference in Minneapolis for the month of October and are pleased to announce Gary McGraw has accepted our invitation to be our keynote speaker for this event. Stay tuned for more details!!

Andrew van der Stock has agreed to visit our chapter and discuss the new Enterprise Security API. We do not have an exact day yet, so stay tuned.

Videos

Videos of several past meetings are available at https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Video#Videos

Most recent video: Tony Stieber - How NOT to Implement Encryption for the OWASP Top 10 - OWASP (MSP) - 16 June 2008

Upcoming Events: We are working in a mini conference in Minneapolis for the week of October 21st. We are still working on the logistics, but we promise this going to be an interesting and unique event. Lots of great speakers and opportunities to participate. Stay tuned for more information. Also, please feel free to submit suggestions for this event and post an email to the mailing list owasp-twincities_at_lists.owasp.org

We are looking for sponsors! Contact Kuai or Lorna if you are interested, any contributions to the local chapter would be highly appreciated.

OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Sept 24-25th - Don't miss the NYC AppSec conference!

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_NYC_AppSec_2008_Conference/.

DC612 meetings

2nd Thursday of the month

http://www.dc612.org/

MN ISSA- Meets on Tuesday July 15th at the Four Points Sheraton, 1330 Industrial Blvd. Mpls, MN. For more information on speakers and topics. http://www.mn-issa.org/html/chaptermeetings.html

TCJUG (Twin Cities Java Users Group) meets July 14 at Intertech, Inc in Eagan. http://www.intertechtraining.com/UserGroups/JavaUserGroup.aspx