Denver

About the chapter
The Denver OWASP chapter is comprised of Denver metro area (and beyond) professionals and is constantly evolving. In the early years, our chapter meetups consisted of 3-5 people talking about appsec in a donated meeting space. From there we have migrated to holding meetings of 15-25 people at the Hosting.com building in Denver, to 30-40 people on the Community College of Aurora campus, to maxing out capacity at the Chinook Tavern to our current location of Dave & Busters (maxing out the 120+ capacity at this venue as well on many nights). The Denver OWASP chapter is about the community, application security, and discussing advances in technology that impact us all. Chapter Meetings are held the 3rd Wednesday of designated months, see the MeetUp.com site for regular updates and meeting information.

A large part of why 100+ people regularly attend our meetings is due to our presenters (spectacular networking with intelligent individuals coupled with great food and drinks certainly helps). As such, we are always looking for talented speakers ready to share interesting information on a wide variety of topics: Please reach out to Denver OWASP Chapter Leader Steve Kosten: steve 'dot' kosten 'at' owasp.org if you are interested in presenting at one of our regular meetups.

Chapter Board of Directors
Here's the team that's putting it all together:
 * Chairman/Chapter Leader - Steve Kosten
 * Board Member: Serge Borso
 * Board Member: Aaron Cure
 * Board Member: Matt Shufeldt
 * Board Member: Kathy Thaxton
 * Board Member: Frank Vianzon

OWASP Podcast
OWASP Podcast

Questions, Comments
Questions can be directed to


 * Steve Kosten, Denver OWASP: steve 'dot' kosten 'at' owasp.org

Past Meetings
As you can tell we have been doing this for quite some time with regularity. Some of our older presentations are listed below

All meetings after July 2014 may be found on our : Denver OWASP Meetup Site

July 2014:Andy Earle: "Static Analysis: Beyond the Basics"

March 2014:Matt Shufeldt: "Data Breaches"

July 2013: Jim Manico: "Secure Coding Techniques Part 2"

June 2013: Aaron Cure: "Less Frequently talked about vulnerabilities"

April 2013: Matt Schufeldt: "Security in the SDLC"

March 2013: Jim Manico: "Secure Coding Techniques"

February 2013: Chris Roberts: "The Evolution of Hacking"

July 2013: Dave Ferguson: "Building a Successful Application Security Program"

June 2012: Laz: Emerging Threats

May 2012: Steve Kosten: XSS hands-on

April 18th 2012: Tim Van Cleave "Intro to WebScarab and WebGoat"

Denver January 2012 meeting January 18th, 2012| Greg Knaddison "How Does Drupal Security Stack up?"

September 14th 2011: Chris Schmidt "OWASP ESAPI"

March 17th 2011: Hands on "Hack a Thon"

September 22nd 2010: Eric Duprey: Application Vulnerability Shooting Gallery

August 18th 2010: Clint Pollock: Protecting Your Applications from Backdoors

June 2nd 2010: Front Range OWASP Conference

January 20th 2010: John Evans: Securing Webapps: An Illustrative Overview

November 18th 2009: Anton Rager: Advanced XSS

August 27th 2009: Jon Rose: Security in the Clouds

May 2009: Dr. Joseph McComb & and Daniel Weiske: Compliance and application security testing

March 2009: Front Range OWASP Conference (SnowFROC)

January 2009: David Campbell & Eric Duprey: Guided Tour: AppSec NYC '08 CTF

October 2008: Alex Smolen: The OWASP ASP .NET ESAPI

September 2008: John Dickson: Black Box vs. White Box: Different App Testing Strategies

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

June 2007

April 2007

February 2007

January 2007

November 2006

Mailing List
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Key OWASP Resources

 * http://www.owasp.org/images/4/41/ASVS_One_Page_Handout.pdf
 * http://www.owasp.org/images/3/31/ESAPI_One_Page_Handout.pdf
 * http://www.owasp.org/images/a/a1/Legal_One_Page_Handout.pdf
 * http://www.owasp.org/images/a/a3/How_ESAPI_Works.pdf
 * http://www.owasp.org/images/a/ac/LAMP_Should_be_Spelled_LAMPE.pdf
 * http://www.owasp.org/images/0/01/Getting_started_designing_for_a_level_of_assurance.pdf
 * http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Agile_Software_Development:_Don%27t_Forget_EVIL_User_Stories
 * http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Man_vs._Code
 * http://www.owasp.org/images/4/4e/OWASP_ASVS_2009_Web_App_Std_Release.pdf
 * http://www.owasp.org/images/c/cd/PHP-ESAPI_1.0a_install.pdf
 * http://www.owasp.org/images/6/67/PHP-ESAPI_1.0a_ReleaseNotes.pdf

Chapter Management Links
Denver OWASP Chapter SOPs