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:michelle.simpson@owasp.org Michelle Simpson]
 * [mailto:philip.okane@owasp.org Philip O'Kane]
 * [mailto:gary.robinson@owasp.org Gary Robinson]
 * [mailto:siobhan.gallagher@owasp.org Siobhan Gallagher]

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 Session - Monday July 18th

6:45 PM Queens Ashby Building Stranmillis Rd, Belfast BT9 5AG, Belfast

http://www.meetup.com/OWASP-Belfast/events/231770209/

OWASP Belfasts' July session will be a full session on secure coding with lots of examples and some code, along with the usual pizza and beers (kindly sponsored by Vanrath).

Rails Secure Coding - Owen Mooney

Learn the pitfalls of secure code development with Ruby based on the experience of the edgescan development team. The workshop shall cover many of the most common application security vulnerabilities and additional considerstions for developers when building applications in Ruby for deployment to the public Internet or the cloud.This 2.5 hour workshop shall be delivered by Owen Mooney, lead developer for edgescan.com, the cloud based full stack vulnerability management SaaS.

Please note that the session will begin at the earlier time of 18:45. There will be a break half way through for pizza & beers and the session will finish at 21:45. No equipment is required for attendance.

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