Category:OWASP Education Project

Welcome to the OWASP Education Project
Web Application Security Education and Awareness is needed throughout the entire organization, each area and level of organizations have specific needs and requirements regarding education. A manager needs other information than a security professional or developer. Novices to the profession require other training than people with several years of experience. This Education project aims to provide in building blocks of web application security information. These modules can be combined together in education tracks targeting different audiences. The first list of modules can be found here.

Education Material Categorized
The education materialis categorized in two manors, by the CLASP roles and a more global way of general concern.

Profession / Interest
Below you find the education material categorized by profession and interest.

OWASP Top Ten
The OWASP Top Ten represents a broad consensus about what the most critical web application security flaws are. Project members include a variety of security experts from around the world who have shared their expertise to produce this list. There are currently versions in English, French, Japanese, Korean and Turkish. A Spanish version is in the works. We urge all companies to adopt this awareness document within their organization and start the process of ensuring that their web applications do not contain these flaws. Adopting the OWASP Top Ten is perhaps the most effective first step towards changing the software development culture within your organization into one that produces secure code.

OWASP Tooling
An OWASP Project is a collection of related tasks that have a defined roadmap and team members. OWASP project leaders are responsible for defining the vision, roadmap, and tasks for the project. The project leader also promotes the project and builds the team. Tools and documents are organized into the following categories: PROTECT - These are tools and documents that can be used to guard against security-related design and implementation flaws. DETECT - These are tools and documents that can be used to find security-related design and implementation flaws. LIFE CYCLE - These are tools and documents that can be used to add security-related activities into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

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OWASP Documentation
An OWASP Project is a collection of related tasks that have a defined roadmap and team members. OWASP project leaders are responsible for defining the vision, roadmap, and tasks for the project. The project leader also promotes the project and builds the team. Tools and documents are organized into the following categories: PROTECT - These are tools and documents that can be used to guard against security-related design and implementation flaws. DETECT - These are tools and documents that can be used to find security-related design and implementation flaws. LIFE CYCLE - These are tools and documents that can be used to add security-related activities into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

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CLASP roles
CLASP (Comprehensive, Lightweight Application Security Process) provides a well-organized and structured approach for moving security concerns into the early stages of the software development lifecycle, whenever possible.

Goals & Roadmap
Currently the project goals are to create Educational Tracks: Further breakdown of tasks and future developments are listed in the road map.
 * A Web Application Security Primer Track for beginners (4 hours)
 * What Developers Should Know on Web Application Security Track for developers (4 hours)
 * Create a consolidation page of OWASP presentations performed in the past with the possibility to add comments
 * OWASP Boot Camp OWASP Training events, get ready for secure application development
 * Capture the flag application

Spoc007 Progress
The Education project was selected for Spoc007 participation (see page for progress).

The SpoC007 goal is to finish Sub Goals 1, 2, 3 and perform Sub Goal 4 during the coming months (road map).

Project Guiding Principles
This project aims to provide in building blocks of web application security knowledge that can easily be integrated in awareness sessions or presentations on this topic. The building blocks provided by this project can then be bundled together in eduction tracks. An important guideline is therefore that the material produced is modular.

Resources and links
This project is not standalone. There is an awfull lot of information that can be found throughout this site and from other resources on the Internet. This project will draw pieces of information from: One of the modules to create will be a Resources module, not limited to OWASP.
 * The Video's
 * The presentations, currently being inventorized in the consolidation page of OWASP presentations¨
 * WebGoat

Feedback and Participation:
We hope you find the OWASP Education Project useful. Please contribute to the Project by volunteering for one of the Tasks, sending your comments, questions, and suggestions to the mailing list.

If you used material from our project, please use the available evaluation forms and let uw know how we can improve our modules and tracks.

Project Contributors
If you contribute to this Project, please add your name here. Project Lead:
 * Sebastien Deleersnyder

Contributors:


 * Mike de Libero
 * Bunyamin Demir
 * Philippe Bogaerts
 * Tom Brennan
 * Martin Knobloch
 * Grady McCorkle
 * you? ...