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THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: The Dallas Chapter of OWASP would like to thank Richland College for hosting our meetings.

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September Meeting
When: Wednesday September 11, 2013 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Topic:  PCI Mobile Payment Acceptance Security Guidelines for Developers

The presentation will include a brief introduction to the PCI Mobile Payment Acceptance Security Guidelines documents. It then describes how Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) guidance, especially that of the OWASP Mobile Security Project, was referenced in the PCI Mobile Payment Acceptance Security Guidelines for Developers document. Additionally, this discusses the state of national and international standards that may influence mobile security.

Who:: Ralph Spencer Poore, Director, Emerging Standards at PCI Security Standards Council

Ralph has over 35 years of information security experience including over twenty years of applied cryptography. He has written extensively on information security and cryptography; his work is cited in academic papers, national standards, professional journals, and books. He came to PCI SSC from a small business that was a QSAC where he was a QSA. In various capacities, he designed and lead teams of developers in cryptographic system projects resulting in patents of systems based on cryptography, e.g., Patent 6,202,933 "Transaction card and methods and apparatus therefor," issued on March 20, 2001, and Patent 20050114218 “Third party privacy system,” issued on May 26, 2005. In support of classified government projects, assisted in the development of cryptanalytic tools. Ralph has extensive experience in financial services industry, national and international standards development.

Where: Richland College, 12800 Abrams Road, Dallas, TX 75243, Room: Sabine Hall: SH117

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May Meeting
When: Wednesday May 8, 2013 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Topic:  Implementation Patterns for Software Security Programs

Who:: Dan Cornell, Principal, Denim Group

Where: Richland College, 12800 Abrams Road, Dallas, TX 75243, Room: Sabine Hall: SH117

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February Meeting
When: Wednesday February 6, 2013 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Topic:  Using Webappsec Vulns to Break Censorship

Who:: Robert Hansen, a.k.a. rsnake

Where: Richland College, 12800 Abrams Road, Dallas, TX 75243, Room: Sabine Hall: SH117

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November Meeting
When: Wednesday November 7, 2012 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Topic:  Flame, Stuxnet, One to be Named and the Elderwood Project - Today’s Threat Landscape

Who: John R. Hill, CISSP, Principal Security Strategist Security Business Practice Symantec

Where: Richland College, 12800 Abrams Road, Dallas, TX 75243, Room: Sabine Hall: SH118

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October Meeting
When: Wednesday October 3, 2012 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Topic:  Exploitation Techniques and Mitigation

Who: James McFadyen, Information Security Engineer and Director of Customer Support at HAWK Network Defense, Inc

Where: Richland College, 12800 Abrams Road, Dallas, TX 75243, Room: Sabine Hall: SH118

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September Meeting
When: Wednesday September 12, 2012 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Topic:  The Importance of Application Security.

Who: Peter Perfetti; Director, Security Services & Operations IMPACT Security, LLC

Where: Richland College, 12800 Abrams Road, Dallas, TX 75243, Room: Sabine Hall: SH118

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August Meeting
When: Wednesday August 1, 2012 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Topic:  Malicious Math: Recent Real-World Cryptographical and Computational Threats on the Web.

Who: Derek Soeder, founder, Ridgeway Internet Security

Where: Richland College, 12800 Abrams Road, Dallas, TX 75243, Room: Sabine Hall: SH118

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Slides: [[Media:Malicious Math - Final.pptx‎]]

July Meeting
When: Wednesday July 11, 2012 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Topic:  Reinventing Dynamic Testing: Real-Time Hybrid

Who: Adam Hils; Senior Product Manager HP Enterprise Security Products

Where: Richland College, 12800 Abrams Road, Dallas, TX 75243, Room: Sabine Hall: SH118

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June Meeting
When: Wednesday June 6, 2012 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Topic:  Is There An End to Testing Ourselves Secure?

Who: Rohit Sethi; Vice President, Product Development, SD Elements

Where: Richland College, 12800 Abrams Road, Dallas, TX 75243, Room: Sabine Hall: SH118

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May Meeting
When: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM

Topic:  OWASP and PCI DSS Requirement 6.5

OWASP and PCI DSS Requirement 6.5. Keeping current with the OWASP top 10 and how it impacts companies PCI compliance and training. Tony will discuss how McAfee complies to the requirement and how McAfee must make changes to match the current top 10 as well has making sure that developers keep up to date on training. Who: Tony Gunn; Director of Security Operations for McAfee Where: North Lake College (Central Campus) 5001 N. MacArthur Blvd. Irving, TX 75038 Phone: 972-273-3000 Building: A Room: 206

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March Meeting
When: March 7, 2012, 11:30am - 1:00pm

Topic:  AAA for Hybrid Cloud Environment

During this session, presented by Symplified, we will explore four areas of interest.

Web, SaaS, Mobile Application Adoption Protecting sensitive data WAM for the Public Cloud Identity Sprawl

Who: Cullen Landrum, CISSP is a Senior Systems Engineer at Symplified.

Where: North Lake College (Central Campus), 5001 N. MacArthur Blvd. Irving, TX 75038 Phone: 972-273-3000 Building: A Room: 206

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February Meeting
When: February 1, 2012, 11:30am - 1:00pm

Topic:  Web Application Vulnerability Testing with Nessus

Who: Rik A. Jones is a Senior Information Security Analyst for the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD)

Where: SMU Caruth Hall Palmer Conference Center / 406 Caruth Hall 3145 Dyer Street Dallas, Texas 75205

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January Meeting
When: January 11, 2012, 11:30am - 1:00pm

Topic:  OWASP TOP 10

Power point demonstration of OWASP Top Ten Web Application Security Vulnerabilities with actual hacking examples. This presentation will cover such vulnerabilities as SQL injection, XSS and CSRF. Discussion, hands on exercise and question and answer session.

Who: Matt Parsons, VP Parsons Software Security Consulting

Where: North Lake College (Central Campus) 5001 N. MacArthur Blvd. Irving, TX 75038 Phone: 972-273-3000 Building: G Room: 405

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November 7, 2012
Title:  Internet Security Threat Report

Speaker: John R. Hill, CISSP, Principal Security Strategist Security Business Practice Symantec

Slides: [[Media:Symantec_ISTR_17.pdf‎]]

February 1, 2012
Title: Web Application Vulnerability Testing with Nessus

Speaker: Rik A. Jones, Senior Information Security Analyst for the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD)

Slides: [[Media:Web Application Vul Testing with Nessus 2012.02.01.pdf‎]] [[Media:OWASP Broken Web Applications 2012.02.01.pdf‎]]

January 11, 2012
Title: OWASP TOP 10

Speaker: Matt Parsons, VP Parsons Software Security Consulting

Slides: [[Media:OWASPtopTen.pdf‎]]