OWASP Los Angeles nominated for BEST CHAPTER LEADER

Statement of Goals
·        Encourage collaboration with other information security organizations

·        Engage OWASP chapters to share their successes, strategies, and templates to help build strong chapters worldwide

·        Work with other information security organizations to bring more benefits to OWASP membership, such as discounts at InfoSec events around the globe

·        Ensure the knowledge transfer of threats, technologies, strategies, and regulatory policies to help our members successfully implement strategies at their companies and organizations

·        Support enterprise objectives by educating members on the relationship between IT and the business, business processes, and business risks

·        Advocate for OWASP to have a lead role in helping to build partnerships between private industry and the public sector, to protect critical infrastructure and networks

·        Reach out to achieve more participation from the community

·        Encourage meeting attendees and other supporters to join OWASP

·        Help grow the Cyber Secure Community by reaching out to business leaders

·        Share knowledge and experience with fellow security professionals

·        Encourage and create safe haven for upcoming speakers to present at monthly meetings

Achievements
·        Hosted one meeting every month since 2008, with 65-95 attendees since January 2011

·        Helped to build up the Orange County OWASP Chapter; they are now having monthly meetings with 30-40 attendees

·        Working collaboratively with other security organizations: regular joint meetings twice a year with ISSA Los Angeles; joint meeting with ISSA, ISC(2), and CSA

·        Regularly speak and/or have a presence at other security events, such as ISSA LA Security Summit, BSides, Scale 11x, ISSA OC Security Symposium, etc

·        Planning and hosting a statewide OWASP Security Summit, AppSec California,  in January 2014, in collaboration with other California OWASP Chapters

·        Have world-class speakers, like Jim Manico, Ed Bonver, Cassio Goldschmidt, Chris Wysopal, and Tin Zaw, at monthly meetings

·        Helped create and modify Co-Marketing Agreements with other organizations, such as ISSA and EC-Council