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Next OWASP German Chapter Meeting - February 20th in Darmstadt
Date: February 20th, 2007, 11:00-16:15 Location: Darmstadt, CAST (http://www.cast-forum.de) (detailed map will be available here shortly)

The next chapter meeting will be hosted at CAST in Darmstadt. This time the focus is on technical presentations and discussion. Preliminary Agenda (further topics welcome until latest February 7th, final agenda will be published on Feb-9) All four technical presentation slots will consist of 20-30 minute presentation and 15 minute discussion. Note: if you are interested, CAST also runs an Enterprise Security Management Day on Feb-21: (http://www.cast-forum.de/workshops/infos/99 Best regards, Tobias
 * 1. (11:00 - 11:15) Welcome, Introduction and Administrativia
 * 2. (11:15 - 11:30) Vorstellung von CAST (Dr. Heinemann)
 * 3. (11:30 - 11:45) Short OWASP organisation introduction and update (Tobias Gondrom)
 * 4. (11:45 - 12:30) First technical presentation "Best Practices beim Einsatz einer Web Application Firewall 1.0" (Wer ?)
 * 5. (12:30 - 13:15) Break
 * 6. (13:15 - 14:00) 15-Minuten Talks (5-10 Min Presentation + 5-10 Min Discuss)
 * "Secure Coding and Development Guidelines (part of CLASP)" (Tobias)
 * "Managing of extremely large Web Application Firewall Installations" (Alexander Meisel)
 * 7. (14:00 - 14:45) Third technical presentation "Defending against Web Application DoS Attacks" (Maximilian Dermann)
 * 8. (14:45 - 15:00) Coffee Break
 * 9. (15:00 - 15:45) Fourth technical presentation TBD
 * 10. (15:45 - 16:00) Wrap-up and outlook
 * 10. (15:45 - 16:00) Wrap-up and outlook

Chapter Meeting on September 7th 2007 in Frankfurt/Main
After two years of absence the German Chapter has been restarted. The chapter meeting was on September 7th 2007, 15:00 - 18:00.

This first chapter meeting had as its main goal the re-initiation of the German chapter and to start work on projects. Talks and presentations are secondary and will receive more focus at subsequent meetings.

 Read meeting notes/minutes here

comments
If you want to participate in the work of the German OWASP chapter or offer to submit work to it and cannot attend the meeting, please contact Tobias or send an email to our [mailto:owasp-germany@lists.owasp.org chapter mailing list (now working!)].

Local News

 * 07 September 2007: Chapter meeting in Frankfurt
 * 18 July 2007: scheduled chapter meeting on September 7th 2007
 * 02 Mar 2007: German Federal Office for Information Security aka Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) has released the Indigo Security (engl: 'Indigo Security').


 * 23 Feb 2007: German Federal Office for Information Security aka Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) has released the Apache Tomcat Sicherheitsuntersuchung (engl: 'Apache Tomcat Security Assessment').


 * 06 Sept 2006: German Federal Office for Information Security aka Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) has released the Maßnahmenkatalog und Best Practices für die Sicherheit von Webanwendungen (engl: 'Measures and Best Practices for Web Application Security').

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