OWASP AppSec DC 2010



Registration Now OPEN! | Hotel | Walter E. Washington Convention Center

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Registration is now  OPEN . You can register via OWASP's CVENT tool here.

Registration Fees
ATTENTION FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Enter code ASDC10FED for $100 off, limited time only! (must register with your .gov or .mil email address) For student discount, attendees must present proof of enrollment when picking up your badge.

Who Should Attend AppSec DC 2010

 * Application Developers
 * Application Testers and Quality Assurance
 * Application Project Management and Staff
 * Chief Information Officers, Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Technology Officers, Deputies, Associates and Staff
 * Chief Financial Officers, Auditors, and Staff Responsible for IT Security Oversight and Compliance
 * Security Managers and Staff
 * Executives, Managers, and Staff Responsible for IT Security Governance
 * IT Professionals Interesting in Improving IT Security
 * Anyone interested in learning about or promoting Web Application Security

AppSec DC 2010 CVENT Info Page

Volunteers Needed!
Get involved!

We will take all the help we can get to pull off the best Web Application Security Conference of the year!

More opportunities and areas will be added as time goes on. Our Volunteer Guide can be downloaded which outlines some of the responsibilities and available positions.

To volunteer please email [mailto:volunteers@appsecdc.org volunteers@appsecdc.org] or you can e-mail the Volunteer Coordinators [mailto:josh.feinblum@owasp.org Josh Feinblum] and [mailto:jrose@owasp.org Jon Rose]

Training
OWASP strives to provide world class training for a variety of skill levels and interests at its conferences. From the novice to the expert, developers to managers, there is a training course at AppSec DC for you! Classes will begin at 9 AM each day and run until 5 PM (Daily schedule set by the trainer). Morning refreshments and lunch will be provided. Check each course for the required materials.

Registration Now OPEN!

Price per attendee (conference Registration is a seperate item):
 * 2-Day Class $1495
 * 1-Day Class $745

Assessing and Exploiting Web Applications with Samurai-WTF | Course Detail
Come take the official Samurai-WTF training course given by one of the founders and lead developers of the project! You will learn how to use the latest Samurai-WTF open source tools and the be shown the latest techniques to perform web application assessments. After a quick overview of pen testing methodology, the instructor will lead you through the penetration and exploitation of two different web applications, including client side attacks on the browsers connecting to those sites. Different sets of open source tools will be used on each web application, allow you to learn first hand the pros and cons of each tool. After you have gained experience with the Samurai-WTF tools, you will be challenged with a third web application. This final challenge will give you time to practice your new skills at your own pace and experiment with your favorite new tools. This experience will help you gain the confidence necessary to perform web application assessments and expose you to the wealth of freely available, open source tools.

Leading the AppSec Initative | Course Detail
In this two-day management session you’ll get an industry perspective of application security, understand the key vulnerabilities to applications, be able to analyze root cause, and provide practical and proven techniques in building out an application security initiative. This course gives executives and managers the education and practical guidance they need to ensure that software projects properly address security. The course is designed to provide a firm understanding of the importance of software security, the critical security activities required within the software development lifecycle, and how to efficiently manage security issues during development and maintenance. This understanding is reinforced through industry awareness, live demonstrations of commonly found application vulnerabilities and workgroup exercises allowing attendees to conduct capability assessments and recommend improvement plans.

Remote Testing for Common Web Application Security Threats | Course Detail
The proliferation of web-based applications has increased the enterprise's exposure to a variety of threats. There are overarching steps that can and should be taken at various steps in the application's lifecycle to prevent or mitigate these threats, such as implementing secure design and coding practices, performing source code audits, and maintaining proper audit trails to detect unauthorized use.

This workshop will enable students to test the security of web-based applications from the perspective of the end user. Security testing is especially useful since it can be done at various phases within the application's lifecycle (e.g. during development), or when source code is not available for review. The most common threats and their potential impact will be covered (based on the industry standard OWASP "Top Ten"). Hands-on labs and demonstrations will be used to teach the tools and techniques needed to remotely detect and validate the presence of these threats.

Software Security Best Practices | Course Detail
This tutorial starts with a description of the security problems faced by today's software developer, as well as a detailed description of how defective software can be exploited. It goes on to provide a thorough description of the best practices available to prevent, detect, and remediate security problems in software. Next, the tutorial includes hands-on design review exercises to reinforce each of the concepts presented, together with dozens of examples of common coding errors (primarily in C/C++ and Java).

WebAppSec.php: Developing Secure Web Applications | Course Detail
Web applications are the new frontier of wide‐spread security breaches. This tutorial will guide through development practices to ensure the security and integrity of web applications, in turn protecting user data and the infrastructure the application runs on. Several attack types and risks will be reviewed (including OWASP’s Top 10), along with how the proper development practices can mitigate their damage. Although examples covered are PHP‐based, much of the content is also applicable to other languages.

The Art of Exploiting SQL Injections | Course Detail
This is a full day hands on training course which will typically target penetration testers, security auditors/administrators and even web developers  to learn advanced exploitation techniques. SQL Injection, although now nearly 15 years old, still exists in over 30% of the web applications. This vulnerability could result in (Authentication Bypass, Extraction of arbitrary sensitive data from the database, Access and compromise of the internal network)

To identify the true impact of this vulnerability it is essential that the vulnerability gets exploited to the full extent. While there is a reasonably good awareness when it comes to identify this problem, there are still a lot of grey areas when it comes to exploitation or even identifying complex vulnerabilities like a 2nd order injections. This training will target 3 databases (MS-SQL, Mysql, Oracle) and discuss a variety of exploitation techniques to exploit each scenario.

Practical Web Security Overview | Course Detail
The course gives an overview of the applicable security solutions in web applications, focusing on the most important technologies like Web Services, and tackling both transport-layer security and end-to-end security solutions. The most severe security threats of web-based technologies are introduced through a number of hands-on exercises, prepared in a plug-and-play manner by using a preset VMware virtual machine, including injection-related flaws, Cross Site Scripting, Cross Site Request Forgery, some other input validation-related bugs, improper use of cryptographic features, and many more.

Java Security Overview | Course Detail
The course on one hand introduces the basic security solutions provided by the Java language and the Java Runtime Environment, tackling issues like the Java Security Architecture and the security services of the Java Standard Edition. On the other hand it provides a comprehensive introduction to Java specific security vulnerabilities. Besides the presentations being continuously updated by the latest advances in the software development industry and the most recent achievements of our security research laboratory, attendees can learn how to use Java security features and can examine and correct typical implementation bugs in example source code snippets through a number of hands-on exercises, prepared in a plug-and-play manner by using a preset VMware virtual machine.

Software Security Remediation: How to Fix Application Vulnerabilities | Course Detail
This class teaches attendees how to fix security vulnerabilities in existing software. It provides a mix of discussion of project concerns for planning and managing remediation efforts with hands-on coding examples fixing specific vulnerabilities. Attendees will learn how to risk-rank vulnerabilities, estimate remediation tasks, perform coding fixes for vulnerabilities and demonstrate the effectiveness of fixes applied. The focus is on the practical: how to use limited resources to make significant improvements to the security of target applications. Code examples use the OWASP ESAPI Java and Microsoft Web Protection Library. Many classes teach developers how to build secure code from the ground up or teach security analysts how to test applications for security vulnerabilities. This class teaches developers and security analysts how to deal with their existing portfolio of insecure applications.

Threat Modeling Express | Course Detail
The benefits of threat modeling at the design stage are well-documented, yet few organizations are able to perform this analysis technique due to time constraints. Based on our experience in real world situations, Security Compass has developed a one day approach to threat modeling based loosely on a Facilitated Risk Assessment Process (FRAP). In this class, students learn how to create a “quick and dirty” application threat model using an organization’s most valuable resource: its people. Students learn about the basics of web application security, as well as learn about and perform a real hands-on Express Threat Model. A deliverable template and list of steps will be provided as takeaways for students.

OWASP Member Door Prizes!
Are you an OWASP Member? At AppSecDC we will be giving away some amazing door prizes to some randomly selected OWASP members in attendance. You HAVE to be an OWASP member to be elligable, but if your not, you can easily add the $50 annual membership to your conference ticket and recieve $50 off admission. That's right, FREE OWASP MEMBERSHIP when combined with AppSec DC Registration! So remember to Register today with your OWASP membership!

This years contests vary in length, challenges, objectives and the skill-set of the participants. The goal of this year's ASDC challenges are to include application security folks of all backgrounds from developers to ninjas and to do so in a fun environment that keeps contestants scratching their heads. Contestants have the option of either participating in a more relaxed environment with shorter contest length or going for the more intense route. Contests consist of:

Beer & Pretzels...FTW
Contestants will participate in an hour long challenge to which the victor receives the spoils. Meaning FREE BEERZ!!!

All our base belong to you
Contestants attempt to defeat multiple application(s) security protections for the glory. These challenges are intended to stretch the breadth and depth of contestants knowledge of AppSec and will call upon a range of skills. Play alone or choose your team wisely :-)

Walter E. Washington Convention Center
AppSec DC 2010 will be taking place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington DC.

The convention center is located over the Mount Vernon Square/Convention Center Metro stop on the Green and Yellow lines of the DC Metro, and only a few blocks from our convention hotel, the Grand Hyatt Washington (reserve rooms here).

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Hotel
The Grand Hyatt is our hotel sponsor again for this year. Hotel rooms can be booked at a discounted rate prior to October 15th using this link: https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_gi_new&groupID=2766908

Sponsors
We are currently soliciting sponsors for the AppSec DC Conference. Please refer to our sponsorship opportunities for details.

Slots are going fast so contact us to sponsor today!

Traveling to the DC Metro Area
The Washington DC Area is serviced by three airports -- Reagan National (DCA), Dulles (IAD), and Thurgood Marshall Baltimore/Washington International (BWI). All currently have available transportation to downtown DC via public transportation, shuttles, or cab.

Washington DC is also serviced by Amtrak, VRE, and MARC train lines, which arrive in Union Station, a few metro stops or a short cab ride away from the convention center and the Grand Hyatt.

If you live in the DC Metropolitan area, we suggest taking Metro to the event. The convention center is located over the Mount Vernon Square/Convention Center Metro stop on the Green and Yellow lines of the DC Metro.

Organizers
Mail List: [mailto:organizers@appsecdc.org organizers@appsecdc.org]


 * [mailto:mark.bristow@owasp.org Mark Bristow]
 * [mailto:doug.wilson@owasp.org Doug Wilson]
 * [mailto:wade.woolwine@owasp.org Wade Woolwine]

Arch-Minions
Mail List: [mailto:leads@appsecdc.org leads@appsecdc.org]


 * Facilities ([mailto:facilities@appsecdc.org facilities@appsecdc.org])
 * [mailto:jeremy.long@owasp.org Jeremy Long]
 * [mailto:doug.wilson@owasp.org Doug Wilson]
 * [mailto:mark.bristow@owasp.org Mark Bristow]
 * Content ([mailto:content@appsecdc.org content@appsecdc.org])
 * [mailto:jeremy.long@owasp.org Jeremy Long]
 * [mailto:mark.bristow@owasp.org Mark Bristow]
 * [mailto:shawn.duffy@owasp.org Shawn Duffy]
 * [mailto:Rex.Booth@owasp.org Rex Booth]
 * Security ([mailto:security@appsecdc.org security@appsecdc.org])
 * TBD
 * Press ([mailto:press@appsecdc.org press@appsecdc.org])
 * [mailto:mike.smith@owasp.org Mike Smith]
 * [mailto:mark.bristow@owasp.org Mark Bristow]
 * [mailto:doug.wilson@owasp.org Doug Wilson]
 * [mailto:wade.woolwine@owasp.org Wade Woolwine]
 * Registration/Info Desk ([mailto:info@appsecdc.org info@appsecdc.org])
 * [mailto:Kate.Hartmann@owasp.org Kate Hartmann]
 * [mailto:mark.bristow@owasp.org Mark Bristow]
 * [mailto:wade.woolwine@owasp.org Wade Woolwine]
 * Volunteer Coordinators ([mailto:volunteers@appsecdc.org volunteers@appsecdc.org])
 * [mailto:josh.feinblum@owasp.org Josh Feinblum]
 * [mailto:jrose@owasp.org Jon Rose]
 * [mailto:wade.woolwine@owasp.org Wade Woolwine]
 * Competitions/Contests/Events ([mailto:contests@appsecdc.org contests@appsecdc.org])
 * [mailto:jrose@owasp.org Jon Rose] (Chair)
 * [mailto:ken.johnson@owasp.org Ken Johnson]
 * [mailto:ben.null@owasp.org Ben Null]
 * [mailto:wade.woolwine@owasp.org Wade Woolwine]
 * Marketing/Community Outreach ([mailto:outreach@appsecdc.org outreach@appsecdc.org])
 * [mailto:dave.sachdev@owasp.org Dave Sachdev]
 * [mailto:lahla@owasp.org Lee Anne Hart]
 * [mailto:doug.wilson@owasp.org Doug Wilson]
 * [mailto:mark.bristow@owasp.org Mark Bristow]
 * Sponsorships ([mailto:sponsors@appsecdc.org sponsors@appsecdc.org])
 * [mailto:josh.feinblum@owasp.org Josh Feinblum]
 * [mailto:tom.hallewell@owasp.org Tom Hallewell]
 * [mailto:grecs@owasp.org Grecs]
 * [mailto:Rex.Booth@owasp.org Rex Booth]
 * [mailto:mark.bristow@owasp.org Mark Bristow]
 * [mailto:doug.wilson@owasp.org Doug Wilson]
 * [mailto:wade.woolwine@owasp.org Wade Woolwine]