Houston

=Upcoming Events=

Events
We will be posting new events here as we have details. Our events are open to anyone but may be limited by capacity so RSVP. You should expect the quarterly meetings will fall on February, May, August, and November of 2013. Quarterly meetings will be more formal with two presenters. We will try to make sure that one of these presenters is from out of town. The monthly meetings will be less formal. The crowd will share their research and we will have some hands on workshops so you should bring a laptop that can run some VMs. There will be a lock picking station at each event. Food and beverage is provided.

OWASP Houston January Workshop (Jan. 31st)
Join us on Thursday January 31st for an OWASP Houston Workshop. During this workshop attendees will be lead through the process of discovering and reporting vulnerabilities. We will start by reviewing source code for some common vulnerabilities. Once we identify interesting code, we will test the application to confirm our findings. Finally, we will discuss reporting. If you'd like to participate bring your laptop. You should prepare a virtual machine with Linux, Apache, Mysql, and PHP. If you just want to watch that's fine too.

Sponsored by: Imperva, Alert Logic When: January 31st 2013 (Thursday 6PM - 8PM) Where: Stag's Head Pub (Private Room) - 2128 Portsmouth Street Houston, TX 77098 Phone: (713) 533-1199

OWASP Houston Kick-Off Meeting (Nov. 19th)
We'll be reviewing survey results and trying to finalize some details like when and where to hold our meetings. If you want to get involved with OWASP Houston now is the time. Sponsored by: Imperva, Alert Logic When: November 19th 2012 (Monday 6PM - 8PM) Where: Stag's Head Pub (Private Room) - 2128 Portsmouth Street Houston, TX 77098 Phone: (713) 533-1199

=RSVP=

RSVP
We're organizing at meetup.com you don't have to use your real name but you should consider registering so we can get a good idea of who is planning to attend.

=Sponsors=

Bronze Sponsors
Imperva Alert Logic =Sponsorship Opportunities=

Sponsorship Opportunities
We're always looking for sponsors to help us provide the highest quality experience for our attendees. For sponsoring OWASP Houston we will list your name on our site, mention your sponsorship in all announcements on the mailing list, send us a banner and we'll hang it at the event, and send you some pictures. If you'd like to send someone to attend the event we will make room for a table. We encourage sponsors to have raffles to try and capture leads. Rather than sponsoring just one event consider sponsoring a few from the 2013 series.

Opportunity #1 - Monthly Informal Meeting
At our monthly meetings we will be having lightning talks, workshops, bug hunting, lockpicking, and freehack sessions. Your sponsorship of this event includes appetizers and beverages for the attendees. We estimating $100 in appetizers and $200 in drink tickets. By using drink tickets, we ensure that our sponsors are able to interact with every attendee who wants a drink. Feel free to pass out business cards and network just like you would anywhere else. We will have seven of these types of meetings in 2013 so you can sponsor all of them for just $2,100. On months where we have a formal meeting we will not hold an informal meetup.

Opportunity #2 - Quarterly Formal Meeting
At our quarterly meetings we will be hosting two quality presenters. Generally we try to pull one presenter from out of state. Your sponsorship of this event includes food and beverages for the attendees. We are estimating $100 for food, $200 for beverages, and $300 to cover speaker travel expenses. Consider supporting the Houston OWASP community by sponsoring all of our quarterly meetings for $2,400.

Opportunity #3 - OWASP Presenter Sponsorship
Although OWASP is a non-profit organization, we strive to provide our members with the best presenters possible. In exchange for covering travel expenses for these presenters, our chapter will provide you with five minutes at the start of the meeting to introduce yourself and tell us about the products or services that your company offers. This benefit is in addition to special mention for sponsoring the travel. The speakers traveling expenses may vary but with a $1,200 donation we think we can handle the rest.

Opporutnity #4 - Meeting Space
Think you have a better place to meet? Donate space for our quarterly meetings.

Opportunity #5 - Lock Pick Table
We are coordinating a lock picking table at every event. To help us get some new locks and create some mock door setups. For $1,000 bucks you can sponsor the table for a whole year. This is a limit one deal. We'll credit you for it in all promotions, list you as a sponsor on the website. The whole deal.

=Call for Papers=

Call for Papers
We're actively accepting abstracts. Please send all abstracts to paul dot scott at owasp dot org.

=Local News=

Local News
Worthwhile information.

November 5th 2012
Houston OWASP Chapter has been activated. Please join us in making this a successful security meetup. First meeting to finalize details around 2013 series of meeting has been scheduled for November 19th, 2012. Please fill out the quick five question survey if you have not.