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Thank you for attending our previous chapter meeting and thanks to Websense for providing an excellent meeting space. Jeromie Jackson led the meeting with a great presentation and there were a variety of new ideas generated via open discussion. The next meeting is currently being planned so please check back here and/or join the mailing list for upcoming meeting details.

 Meeting Notes October 22, 2009  Ideas -There are big python and ruby user groups in SD (Gabriel Lawrence is a good conduit) -Many other user groups use meetup.com to publish meetings -Create multisession curriculum (review tools and deep dive on different subject) -Loosely couple presentations so new attendees can easily join in -Discussed idea of charging small fee to attend meetings (decided not to entertain this until meeting matures) -Possibly segregate training sessions from regular sessions and provide a some theme to the training sessions -Vendors to possibly bring in (Rapid7 HDMoore, Breach, Modsecurity, McAfee, DBNetworks) -Possibly provide CPE credits for attending OWASP events

Future Meeting Topics -Remediation vs. Mitigation -Mitigation techniques when the code can’t be fixed -Demo ESAPI in PHP and/or ASP.net -How to run security testing when evaluating a new software product -CFO level meeting regarding cost justification for security tools and risk assessment -Web enumeration and data mining -Vulnerability classification and remedation techniques

Date:    TBD Time:    TBD Location: Websense Corporate Office 10240 Sorrento Valley Rd                 San Diego, California  92121

Contact: Jeromie Jackson- CISSP, CISM Jeromie.Jackson@comsecinc.com 858.205.3645

OWASP San Diego Board Formation

[mailto:jeromie@owasp-sd.org Jeromie Jackson] - President [mailto:jeff@owasp-sd.org Jeff Sutton] - Vice President [mailto:matt@owasp-sd.org Matt Harrigan] - Director of Research [mailto:steve@owasp-sd.org Steve Groom] - Director of Marketing [mailto:andy@owasp-sd.org Andy Stovall] - Technical Director [mailto:tom@owasp-sd.org Tom Spencer] - Program Director