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San Antonio OWASP Chapter: September 2007 Meeting

Topic: Developing an Application Security Strategy for Large Enterprise Systems

Presenter: Bruce Jenkins, Fortify Software

Date: September 6th, 11:30am – 1:00pm

Location:

San Antonio Technology Center (Web Room) 3463 Magic Drive San Antonio, TX 78229 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=3463+Magic+Drive,+San+Antonio,+TX+78229

Abstract:

Over the past decade, the Department of Defense in general, and the US Air Force in particular, has transformed itself to better deal with 21st century warfare. The Air Force in fact has modified its stated mission to include cyberspace as one of the domains in which it will “fly and fight.” This type of shift in strategic thinking is critical for any organization to properly acknowledge and manage real-world threats against one of its most valuable assets:  data.

Despite modernized mission statements and mindsets, organizations continue to have difficulty implementing a course of action for dealing with the threats against software systems serving up their data. It is easy to talk about buying and implementing software security tools for developers, QA testers and post-deployment operators; however, schedules and budgets quickly go bust without consideration of the common obstacles.

This presentation describes an application security strategy for large enterprise systems—what to look out for, and what you must do to ensure the successful rollout of the tools and services necessary to counter the dark side of cyberspace.

Presenter Bio:

Major Bruce C. Jenkins, USAF (Ret.) is Security Practice Director at Fortify Software, Inc., where his responsibilities include refining customer security requirements, managing Fortify product deployments and delivering security services.

Prior to joining Fortify, he spent 26 of his 28 years in the service leading people, managing projects, and dealing with technological and organizational change. His military experiences range from managing a small team of aircraft avionics technicians to commanding a communications unit supporting over 3,000 U.S. and international forces in Southwest Asia. Most recently, as Chief of Systems Security, 554th Electronic Systems Wing, he helped establish a nearly $13M budget for creating the Air Force’s first ever Center of Excellence for applications security.

Bruce holds a BS in computer science from the University of Maryland and MS in operations research from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker with countless hours of Internet surf time, where he has learned that paranoia is a perfectly legitimate state of mind.

Sodas and snacks will be provided. Feel free to bring a brown-bag lunch.

Please RSVP: E-mail owasprsvp@denimgroup.com or call (210) 572-4400.

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