Boston

Welcome to the OWASP Boston Chapter
To find out more about the Boston chapter, please send an email to [mailto:Jim.Weiler@owasp.org Jim Weiler] or just join the OWASP Boston mailing list.

We meet the FIRST WEDNESDAY of EVERY MONTH, 6:30 to 9 pm.

Everyone is welcome to come to any meeting, there is no signup or joining criteria, just come if it sounds interesting. Feel free to sign up to the OWASP Boston mailing list. This list is very low volume (2 - 3 emails/month); it is used to remind people about each monthly meeting, inform about local application security events and special chapter offers.

Information and an RSS feed for meeting updates about this and other Boston area user groups can be found at Boston User Groups.

Location
The Boston OWASP Chapter meets the FIRST WEDNESDAY of every month, 6:30 pm at the Microsoft offices at the Waltham Weston Corporate Center, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA.

From Rt. 128 North take exit 26 toward Waltham, East up the hill on Rt. 20. From Rt 128 South take exit 26 but go around the rotary to get to 20 East to Waltham. Follow signs for Rt. 117 (left at the second light). When you get to 117 turn left (West). You will cross back over Rt. 128. Jones Rd. (look for the Waltham Weston Corporate Center sign) is the second left, at a blinking yellow light, on Rt. 117 going west about 0.1 miles from Rt. 128 (I95). The office building is at the bottom of Jones Rd. Best parking is to turn right just before the building and park in the back. Knock on the door to get the security guard to open it. The room is MPR C.

Reviews
Reviews of security podcasts

Next Meeting
NO MEETING IN February

Next Meeting - March 7, 2007

Tool Talk - TBD

Speaker - Jeremiah Grossman, Founder and CTO, WhiteHat security

Top 10 Hacks of 2006 and What They Bode for 2007

Jeremiah Grossman will:

Reveal the top 10 attacks of 2006 by creativity and scope Predict what these attacks mean for website vulnerability management in 2007 Present strategies to protect your corporate websites Mr. Grossman is a world-renowned expert in Web security and a founding member of the Web Application Security Consortium. He is a frequent speaker at industry events including RSA, the BlackHat Briefings, CSI NetSec, ISACA's Network Security Conference, NASA, ISSA and Defcon.

Pizza provided by WhiteHat Security '''

Past Meeting Notes
Feb 2005

Application Security Inc. PowerPoint slides for the Anatomy of a Database Attack.

March 2005

Joe Stagner: Microsoft Let's talk about Application Security

April 2005

Jonathan Levin - Of Random Numbers

Jothy Rosenberg, Founder and CTO: Service Integrity - Web Services Security

May 2005

Patrick Hynds, CTO: Critical Sites - Passwords - Keys to the Kingdom

June 2005

Arian Evans, National Practice Lead, Senior Security Engineer: Fishnet Security Overview of Application Security Tools

July 2005

Mark O'Neill, CTO: Vordel - [http://www.owasp.org/docroot/owasp/misc/MarkOneill.pdf Giving SOAP a REST? A look at the intersection of Web Application Security and Web Services Security]

September 2005

Dr. Herbert Thompson, Chief Security Strategist: SecurityInnovation - How to Break Software Security

October 2005

Prateek Mishra, Ph.D. Director, Security Standards and Strategy: Oracle Corp Chaiman of the OASIS Security Services (SAML) Technical Committee - Identity Federation : Prospects and Challenges

Ryan Shorter, Sr. System Engineer: Netcontinuum - Application Security Gateways

November 2005

Robert Hurlbut, Independent Consultant Threat Modeling for web applications

December 2005

Paul Galwas, Product Manager: nCipher Enigma variations: Key Management controlled

January 2006

David Low, Senior Field Engineer: RSA Practical Encryption

February 2006

Ron Ben Natan; Guardium CTO Database Security: Protecting Identity Information at the Source

March 2006

Mateo Meucci; OWASP Italy Anatomy of 2 web attacks

Tom Stracener; Cenzic Web Application Vulnerabilities

April 2006

Dennis Hurst; SPI Dynamics: A study of AJAX Hacking

Jim Weiler; OWASP Boston: Using Paros HTTP proxy, part 1. first meeting with all demos, no powerpoints!

May 2006

June 2006 Imperva - Application and Database Vulnerabilities and Intrusion Prevention

Jim Weiler - Using Paros Proxy Server as a Web Application Vulnerability tool