Belfast

OWASP Belfast Sponsorship Opportunities
There are many ways you can help the OWASP Belfast Chapter spread the word about computer security and secure coding. Including the following:
 * If you have a room available to hold a meeting, let us know.
 * Companies can cover the OWASP membership costs of their employees.
 * Supply a speaker on a topic of interest to the OWASP Belfast members, or cover their costs to present.
 * Sponsor food and drink for a session.
 * Further sponsorship can be provided directly to the OWASP Belfast Chapter itself, using the link above. Direct sponsorship allows the OWASP Belfast Board to use the funds as needed to run events.

In return for any sponsorship we can add your company to our list of sponsors on the OWASP Wiki and Meetup sites, and share communications with session attendees. Contact the OWASP Belfast Board (below) for more details.

OWASP Belfast Board
The OWASP Belfast Chapter Leaders are:
 * [mailto:gary.robinson@owasp.org Gary Robinson]
 * [mailto:michelle.simpson@owasp.org Michelle Simpson]
 * [mailto:siobhan.gallagher@owasp.org Siobhan Gallagher]
 * [mailto:philip.okane@owasp.org Philip O'Kane]

What is OWASP Belfast?
OWASP Belfast is just one of over 100 OWASP Chapters around the world, including 4 in Ireland and 12 in the UK, where people meet to learn about and discuss software security topics. The OWASP organization also has lots of active projects that volunteers can participate in to create code and documents for the worldwide security community. The OWASP Top 10 project is the most famous of those projects.

Who is OWASP Belfast for?
It's for programmers, testers, students, project managers, development managers and security experts to collaborate and drive discussion on application security topics. Participation in the mailing lists and attendance at the OWASP Belfast sessions are free, in fact many of the events will provide food and drinks to attendees.

Why be part of OWASP Belfast?

 * The community organizes sessions where experts from across the industry (and globe) give presentations and seminars about application security topics.
 * Attendance and participation in the community increases knowledge and skills, allowing people to stand out from the crowd.
 * Opportunity to network with other Software Professionals and keep in touch with job opportunities in the region.

Local News
OWASP Belfast Chapter August Session - Thursday, August 3 2017

6:30pm @ Allstate NI building, Lanyon Place, Belfast

https://www.meetup.com/OWASP-Belfast/events/241017867/

Security by Design: Continuous Delivery, Integration, and Audit

We are interrupting our summer break to take advantage of a visit by Nathan Gibson, Information Security & Privacy Professional at AllState.

Nathan will be giving an session on maintaining, analyzing, confirming, and reporting on the status of required information security, compliance, and privacy controls is a difficult and significant task for software and security engineers. This talk discusses real world applications and examples for integrating Security by Design with your Continuous Deployment environment. Tools include the use of Jenkins, Chef, Metasploit, Fuzzers, vulnerability scanning (Nexpose), test driven development and system hardening.

Refreshments will be provided, all are welcome. This event will contain the one session by Nathan, and there will be time for questions and discussions afterwards.

Nathan Gibson

Nathan is an Information Security & Privacy Professional who specializes in continuous integration, inspection, and deployment environments. He brings information security and risk management concepts into the product portfolio realization pipeline and embeds the behavior naturally into design, develop, test, and refactor pipelines as a member of the technical team.

Nathan enjoys coding, studying software development methodologies, and keeping up to date on the latest information security trends and methodologies.

Nathan’s  professional qualifications include over 15 years experience in the industry where he has successfully managed secure information systems in dynamic, multinational environments. Nathan is experienced in all aspects of enterprise wide security with tasks ranging from governance and risk assessments through writing code and configuring systems.

To compliment this background, Nathan maintains numerous certifications and academic training covering everything from governance to cryptography. He holds a Masters In Information Security and a Bachelors in Computer Science.

Sign-up for the OWASP Belfast mailing list for more information about this session, and other security related topics, at http://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-Belfast