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Next Meeting
August 2007 Austin OWASP chapter meeting - 8/28, 11:30am - 1:00pm at National Instruments, 11500 N Mopac, Building C which is the tallest building on campus (8 levels). Please wait in the lobby and a NI employee will escort you up to the 5th floor. There will be signs posted in the lobby to direct you where to go and the receptionist will be able to assist you as well. See directions to National Instruments.

Cost: Always Free

About the presentation:

At the September meeting we will discuss the OWASP Testing Framework and use it, along with free and Open Source tools, in a live and interactive demonstration of web site penetration testing. The idea here is to build off of James Wickett's presentation on the OWASP Top 10 so if you did not attend the July meeting it may be a good idea to brush up on that subject at http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Top_Ten_Project.

About the presenter:

Josh Sokol has been working as a Systems Administrator for about 10 years and is currently working as a member of the Web Systems Team at National Instruments. He holds both a CCNA and SANS GWAS certification and is currently working on an initiative to bring a more security oriented mindset to the application developers at NI.

Questions... call:

James 512-964-6227

Scott 512-590-0185

Record Hall of Meetings
August 2007 Austin OWASP chapter meeting8/28,''' 11:30am - 1:00pm at National Instruments. Josh Sokol presented on OWASP Testing Framework and how to use it, along with free and Open Source tools, in a live and interactive demonstration of web site penetration testing.

July 2007 Austin OWASP chapter meeting - 7/31, 11:30am - 1:00pm at Whole Foods. Dan Cornell will be presenting on Cross Site Request Forgery

June 2007 Austin OWASP chapter meeting - 6/26, 11:30am - 1:00pm at National Instruments. James Wickett presented on OWASP Top 10 and using Web Application Scannners to detect Vulnerabilities.

May 2007 Austin OWASP chapter meeting - 5/29, "Bullet Proof UI - A programmer's guide to the complete idiot". Robert will be talking about ways to secure a web-app from aggressive attackers and the unwashed masses alike.

April 2007 Austin OWASP chapter meeting - 4/24, 11:30am - 1:00pm at National Instruments. H.D. Moore (creator of MetaSploit will be presenting)

March 2007 Austin OWASP chapter meeting - 3/27, 11:30am - 1:00pm at National Instruments, 11500 N Mopac, Building C which is the tallest building on campus (8 levels). There will be signs posted in the lobby to direct you where to go and the receptionists will be able to assist you as well. See directions to National Instruments.

January 2007 Austin Chapter Meeting - 1/30, 11:30am - 1:00pm at National Instruments, 11500 N Mopac, Building C Conference Room 1S15.

December Meeting - Due to the holidays, there will be no December OWASP meeting. However, we are looking for speakers for the January meeting. If you or anyone you know would be a good candidate, let us know! Happy Holidays!

November 2006 Austin Chapter Meeting - 11/21, 11:30am - 1:00pm at National Instruments, 11500 N Mopac, Building C Conference Room 1S14.

October 2006 Austin Chapter Meeting - 10/31 - Boo!

September 2006 Austin Chapter Meeting - 9/26, 12-1:00 at Texas ACCESS Alliance building located at the intersection of IH-35 South and Ben White

August 2006 Austin Chapter Meeting - Tuesday- 8/29, 11:30-1:30 on the National Instruments campus, Mopac B (the middle building), conference room 112 (in the Human Resources area to the left of the receptionist). See directions to National Instruments. Hint: It is on your left on Mopac if you were heading up to Fry's from Austin.

Austin OWASP chapter kickoff meeting - Thursday, 7/27, 12-2pm @ Whole Foods Market (downtown, plaza level, sign in with receptionist)

Presentation Archives
The following presentations have been given at local chapter meetings:


 * Single Sign On (7/27)


 * A Rough Start of a Toolset for Assessing Java/J2EE Web Apps (7/27) - MattFranz discussed some custom Python tools he has been writing for conducting security testing of a Struts (and other Java) web applications.


 * AJAX Security: Here we go again - Dan Cornell from Denim Group discussed security issues in the one the popular Web 2.0 technlogy (8/29)