Denver

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at Raytheon Polar Services
7400 S. Tucson Way, Centennial, CO 80112.

Dan Cornell: Static Analysis Techniques for Testing Application Security
Static Analysis of software refers to examining source code and other software artifacts without executing them. This presentation looks at how these techniques can be used to identify security defects in applications. Approaches examined will range from simple keyword search methods used to identify calls to banned functions through more sophisticated data flow analysis used to identify more complicated issues such as injection flaws. In addition, a demonstration will be given of two freely-available static analysis tools: FindBugs for the Java platform and FXCop for the .NET platform. Finally, some approaches will be presented on how organizations can start using static analysis tools as part of their development and quality assurance processes.

Dan Cornell has over ten years of experience architecting and developing web-based software systems. He leads Denim Group’s security research team in investigating the application of secure coding and development techniques to improve web-based software development methodologies.

Dan was the founding coordinator and chairman for the Java Users Group of San Antonio (JUGSA) and is currently the San Antonio chapter leader of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). He is a recognized expert in the area of web application security for SearchSoftwareQuality.com and the primary author of Sprajax, OWASP’s open source tool for assessing the security of AJAX-enabled web applications.

Agenda:

6-6:30 Dinner (at Raytheon Polar; pizza provided by Business Partner Solutions.)

6:30 - 6:40 Chapter business

6:40 - 8:00 Presentation and Q&A

Following the meeting we will have informal discussions over beverages at JD's Bait Shop.

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Questions, Comments
Questions can be directed to
 * [mailto:dcampbell@owasp.org David Campbell, Denver OWASP]
 * [mailto:eduprey@gmail.com Eric Duprey, Denver OWASP]

Future Meetings
20 August 2008: Dan Cornell, author of SPRAJAX

September 2008: John Dickson

October 2008: ASP .NET ESAPI: Alex Smolen

November 2008: available

December 2008: available

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August 2008: Dan Cornell: Static Analysis

July 2008: David Byrne & Eric Duprey: Grendel-Scan

June 2008: Front Range OWASP Conference: Jeremiah Grossman, Robert Hansen, and more!

May 2008: David Campbell & Eric Duprey: XSS Attacks & Defenses

April 2008: Ryan Barnett: Virtual Patching with ModSecurity

February 2008: Michael Sutton: SQL Injection Revisited

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