Sacramento

Charter
The Sacramento OWASP Chapter promotes the principles of OWASP in our local community with an emphasis on education, local networking opportunities, and fun. Meetings are typically on the last Thursday evening of the month.

NEXT MEETING: Thursday October 1, 2009 6:00-8:00pm
The next OWASP Sacramento meeting is tentatively planned for Thursday October 1st at 6pm. This meeting will be hosted at EDS Medi-Cal in Rancho Cordova, CA.

The topic is TBD but proposals from the last meeting included:
 * Database security hardening and configuration
 * Baking security into the SDLC
 * .NET Security

Past Meetings
2009-07-30: [mailto:roman.hustad@yahoo.com Roman Hustad] presented "Hands-on Cross-Site Scripting"

2009-05-12: [mailto:roman.hustad@yahoo.com Roman Hustad] presented "Hands-on SQL Injection"

2008-10-30: Joy Forsythe from Fortify Software presented "Voting Security."

2008-07-31: [mailto:roman.hustad@yahoo.com Roman Hustad] presented "How to Test the Security of Web Applications."

2008-06-26: Shan Zhou from Imperva presented "Database Security."

2008-04-03: Ryan C. Barnett from Breach Security presented "Passive Web Application Defect Identification."

2007-11-29: [mailto:roman.hustad@yahoo.com Roman Hustad] from Foundstone presented "Web Application Hacking" to over 40 attendees.

2007-08-30: Barmak Meftah from Fortify Software presented "Hack proof your Service-Oriented Architecture" to 15 attendees.

Local News
2007-08-02: OWASP Sacramento is requesting votes for the preferred March topic using the following URL. OWASP Sacramento March Topic Survey. This meeting will be sponsored by Breach Security.

2007-10-01: We have rescheduled the next meeting for November 29th 2007. Please contact [mailto:mpetteys@caiso.com Matt Petteys] with questions or suggestions.

2007-07-15: We have rescheduled the next meeting for August 30th 2007. Please contact [mailto:mpetteys@caiso.com Matt Petteys] with questions or suggestions.

2007-07-01: OWASP Sacramento is requesting comments on future topics using the following URL. OWASP Sacramento Topic Survey

2006-06-27: OWASP Sacramento is planning a public presentation in late August 2007. Contact the [mailto:bobhome@dslextreme.com chapter leader] with questions or suggestions.