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Topic: Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) - in conjunction with the Sarasota Java Users Group (Sunjug)

Date/Time: February 24, 2010

Location: The Community Foundation of Sarasota County (2635 Fruitville Road Sarasota, FL 34237)

Presenter: Steve Goldsmith

Presentation Details: SAML is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains, that is, between an identity provider (a producer of assertions) and a service provider (a consumer of assertions). SAML is a product of the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee.

Since there are many facets to SAML Steve will give a brief overview of SAML and then jump right into a real world scenario using a service provider. The service provider will accept an encrypted and signed assertion from an external entity which will be decrypted and have its attributes revealed. This can be used to integrate an external entities' SSO system into legacy web applications without the need to implement expensive and complex federated security solutions like SIteMinder, etc.

Steve has built the code using OpenSAML for encryption and signing assertions as well to allow end to end testing using Apache Http Client. He will cover topics all the way down to creating RSA key pairs in a Java key store using keytool, so in essence this is a complete solution. The talk will not be covering SSO solutions like JOSSO as this is perhaps better covered at a later date.

See more details and RSVP here

Past Meetings
Topic: Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) - in conjunction with the Sarasota Java Users Group (Sunjug)

Date/Time: February 24, 2010

Location: The Community Foundation of Sarasota County (2635 Fruitville Road Sarasota, FL 34237)

Presenter: Steve Goldsmith

Presentation Details: SAML is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains, that is, between an identity provider (a producer of assertions) and a service provider (a consumer of assertions). SAML is a product of the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee.

Since there are many facets to SAML Steve will give a brief overview of SAML and then jump right into a real world scenario using a service provider. The service provider will accept an encrypted and signed assertion from an external entity which will be decrypted and have its attributes revealed. This can be used to integrate an external entities' SSO system into legacy web applications without the need to implement expensive and complex federated security solutions like SIteMinder, etc.

Steve has built the code using OpenSAML for encryption and signing assertions as well to allow end to end testing using Apache Http Client. He will cover topics all the way down to creating RSA key pairs in a Java key store using keytool, so in essence this is a complete solution. The talk will not be covering SSO solutions like JOSSO as this is perhaps better covered at a later date.

See more details and RSVP here

Date/Time: October 29, 2009 - 6:00pm

Location: Gevity HR in Lakewood Ranch (9000 Town Center Pkwy, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202)

Presenter: James Tarala (See bio at http://www.sans.org/security-training/instructors.php#Tarala)

Presentation Details: "Software Assessment Tools & Methodologies"

''Recent reports, such as the SANS Top Security Risks Report (http://www.sans.org/top-cyber-security-risks/) have indicated that operating system security is no longer one of the biggest challenges to organizations' information security today. Instead one of the primary vectors used by those who threaten information resources are individual applications that reside on an organization's systems. Software applications have become the greater vulnerability to an organization today. In this presentation James Tarala of Enclave Security and a frequent instructor at the SANS Institute will present tools and methodologies for assessing these applications in an effort to better secure an organization's systems''

The slides can be downloaded here

Date/Time: CANCELLED!

Location: Gevity HR in Lakewood Ranch (9000 Town Center Pkwy, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202)

Presenter: Wes Brown

Presentation Details: "So You Want To Analyze Malware?"

''Malware is a broad category of malicious software that covers trojans, viruses, worms, rootkits, and other software that steals information or subverts computers into unintended purposes. There are many reasons why one would want to analyze malware, and they can range from professional interest in defending networks from them, to personal fascination in the techniques involved in crafting them.''

Whatever one’s reason for analyzing malware, Wes will share many of the techniques that he’s utilized in the course of his career working on client incident response engagements as well as a full time analyst on a heuristic detection product.

''Many might think that the techniques are dominated by methods such as reverse engineering and binary analysis, and indeed it is a major part of any analyst’s toolkit. However, statistical analysis, and static forensics can often play just as key a role, combined with scripting, systems management, and data warehousing.''

''Wes will describe and show examples of such techniques, as well as supporting tools. The emphasis will be on doing this with low cost or free tools, so that an audience member can get up and running quickly with malware analysis even on a shoestring budget.''

OWASP Suncoast Chapter Meeting on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @ 6pm

Location: The Community Foundation of Sarasota County (2635 Fruitville Road Sarasota, FL 34237)

Topic: Cross-site Request Forgery, The Sleeping Giant of Web Application Vulnerabilities

Presenter: Steve Carter

Click here to view the invitation.

The slides can be downloaded here: [[Media:CSRF_062209.pdf]]

Introduction to the OWASP Suncoast Chapter at the 82 Degrees Tech Networking Event

When: Wednesday, April 29th  5  to 7 p.m.

Where: Hyatt Place Sarasota, 950 University Drive, Sarasota (across from the airport)

Cost: $10 for 82 Degree Tech Members, $15 for Future members (beer, wine and appetizers will be provided)

(CANCELLED) OWASP Suncoast Chapter Meeting on Monday March 9th, 2009 @ 6pm

Location: Gevity HR in Lakewood Ranch (9000 Town Center Pkwy, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202)

Topic: Web 2.0 Vulnerabilities - Scan, Attack and Detect

Presenter: Shreeraj Shah

Full a full description and bio of Mr. Shah see [[Media:Web2.0_Vulnerabilities_Shreeraj.pdf]]

Successful Meeting Held at Gevity

Thanks to Shane Hartman from Suncoast Security for a great briefing on Flash malware. Also, thanks gain to John Hale and Gevity for providing a conference room.

The presentation materials are available for download:

[[Media:Malware_analysis_of_flash_content.pdf‎]]

OWASP Suncoast Chapter Meeting on Tuesday December 2th, 2008 @ 6pm

Location: Gevity HR in Lakewood Ranch (9000 Town Center Pkwy, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202)

Topic: Analyzing Flash Malware

Successful Meeting Held at Gevity

There was a good turn out for last night's Suncoast OWASP Meeting, held at Gevity on Sept 9th. Thanks to all who attended and special thanks to John Hale and Gevity for sponsoring the event and providing the terrific briefing room.

The presentation materials are available for download:

[[Media:OWASP_Top_10_090708.ppt]]

[[Media:OWASP_Tools_Demo_090908.ppt]]

OWASP Suncoast Chapter Meeting September 9th, 2008 @ 6pm, Location: Gevity HR in Lakewood Ranch (Frederick Taylor conference room)

Agenda: Discussion of OWASP Top Ten Vulnerabilities, OWASP tools demonstration

The presentations from the May 6 Suncoast OWASP meeting are now available for download

The following presentation is an introduction OWASP (and the Suncoast chapter) with in depth information regarding its missions, goals and objectives: [[Media:Introduction_to_OWASP_Suncoast_050608.ppt‎]]

The following presentation is a brief web application security introduction intended for those completely new to the subject: [[Media:Webappsec intro.ppt]]

First Suncoat OWASP Meeting Tuesday May 6, 2008 @ 6pm - 8pm, location: LTC Engineering Associates

Agenda: Introduction to OWASP, Introduction to Web Application Security, OWASP tools demonstration (time permitting)

We are looking for support including speakers and sponsors. We are also still trying to identify a larger conference room in the area to host future events. Please contact [mailto:mnixxon@gmail.com Mike Nixon] or [mailto:carter.stephen@gmail.com Stephen Carter] if you are able to help in any way. Speakers from commercial companies are welcome although it is against Chapter rules to promote commercial products.