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The OWASP Top 10 presentation from Infosecurity.be is now online for download.

Next chapter meeting is on June 1st.

Structural Sponsors 2010
OWASP Member affiliated to the Belgium chapter:

OWASP Belgium thanks its structural chapter supporters for 2010 and the OWASP BeNeLux Day 2010:

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If you want to support our chapter, please contact [mailto:seba@owasp.org Seba Deleersnyder]

Belgium

WHEN
June 1st 2010 18h-21h

WHERE
Location is sponsored by

PROGRAM
The agenda:


 * 18h00 - 18h30: Welcome &amp; Refreshments
 * 18h30 - 18h45: OWASP Update (by Sebastien Deleersnyder, Zenitel, OWASP Board)
 * 19h00 - 20h00: The Belgian e-ID: hacker vs developer (by Erwin Geirnaert and Frank Cornelis)
 * Presentation + discussion: TBD


 * 20h00 - 20h15: Break
 * 20h15 - 21h15: Analyzing the Accuracy Of Web Application Scanners (by Larry Suto)
 * Presentation + discussion: Analyzing the Accuracy Of Web Application Scanners
 * This talk summarizes my recent study related to benchmarking a set of web application scanners against target test sites constructed by the scanner vendors themselves. I will review the methodology and some of the challenges that were faced as the tests were conducted. I have received some interesting feedback from the vendors and the security community. This new information will be integrated into the presentation. The controversial nature of "Point and Shoot" and "Trained" scanning will be addressed and scanning issues related to cloud computing/SaaS will be covered. The presentation will cover some thoughts on open source scanners such as Skipfish and W3AF. Finally I will go into the ideas for another round of testing and the possibility of soliciting target apps from the community.
 * Larry Suto is an application security consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is focused on software security analysis and the testing the effectiveness of software security tools.

REGISTRATION
Please send a mail to Belgium 'at' owasp.org if you plan to attend.

WHEN
Monday, February 1th, 2010 (18h00pm-21h00pm), together with ISSA Belgium.

WHERE
Location sponsored by Ernst&amp;Young's Information Security Team. address: De Kleetlaan 2, 1831 Diegem (Route + Google Maps)

PROGRAM
The agenda:


 * 18h00 - 18h30: Welcome &amp; Refreshments
 * 18h30 - 18h45: OWASP Update (by Sebastien Deleersnyder, Zenitel, OWASP Board)
 * 18h45 - 19h00: ISSA Update (by Bart Moerman, ISSA)
 * 19h00 - 20h00: GreenSQL: an Open Source database firewall (by Yuli Stremovsky, VP of Research and Development at GreenSQL)


 * Presentation + discussion: GreenSQL, an open source database security solution, is available for three years. With the release of version 1.2 GreenSQL started providing support to PostgreSQL besides MySQL. GreenSQL provides a reverse proxy solution to SQL statements and during the reverse proxy process provides several security mechanisms. The lecture will focus on the latest version of GreenSQL and the solution for SQL injection and other attacks.
 * Yuli Stremovsky is a database security expert. He is responsible for design, development of novel database protection solution - GreenSQL. He is an experienced security consultant that worked for a number of leading financial institutions, telecom and health service companies. In the past, he was also involved in software development in a number of start-up companies including development of the security products.


 * 20h00 - 20h15: Break
 * 20h15 - 21h15: MOBILE MALWARE NOW AND IN THE FUTURE (by Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure Corp)


 * Presentation + discussion:
 * Mobile Platforms
 * Situation 2005-2009
 * Current threats
 * Case: The Ikee / Duh botnet on jailbroken iPhones
 * Case: Android banking trojans
 * Future scenarios
 * How to fight content security problems in mobile world?
 * Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer for F-Secure. He has worked with F-Secure since 1991 and has led his team through the biggest malware outbreaks in history. Mr. Hypponen has assisted law enforcment in USA, Europe and Asia on cybercrime cases. He has written for magazines such as Scientific American, Foreign Policy and Virus Bulletin.

REGISTRATION
There are only 100 seats available (first register, first serve)! Please send a mail to Belgium 'at' owasp.org if you plan to attend.

Past Events

 * Events held in 2009
 * Events held in 2008
 * Events held in 2007
 * Events held in 2006
 * Events held in 2005

Belgium OWASP Chapter Leaders
The BeLux Chapter is supported by the following board:


 * Erwin Geirnaert, Zion Security
 * Philippe Bogaerts, F5
 * André Mariën, Inno.com
 * Lieven Desmet, K.U.Leuven
 * Joël Quinet, Telindus
 * Sebastien Deleersnyder, Zenitel
 * Bart De Win, Ascure

Our goal is to professionalize the local OWASP functioning, provide in a bigger footprint to detect OWASP opportunities such as speakers/topics/sponsors/… and set a 5 year target on: Target audiences, Different events and Interactions of OWASP global – local projects.