OWASP AppSec DC 2012

=Welcome=

=CFP=

NOTICE
'''Many of you have written to us asking about the requirement for a paper in our CFP hosted on EasyChair. Due to an unforseen change in the way EasyChair works, you are no longer able to configure a submission to require only an abstract as we thought we had done, and done in the past. To be clear, we are ***NOT*** requiring papers with our CFP submissions. As we have already started the CFP and can not move the platform we ask that anyone who does not have a paper simply submit their abstract as a .txt file to satisfy the systems requirement to upload a paper.'''

We apologize for this inconvience and the confusion it has caused and as a result of the confusion, we are extending the AppSec DC CFP deadline to Feburary 17th 2012 at 11:59 EST to allow all to submit their topics.

Submissions
Submit papers to http://cfp.appsecdc.org. Submission deadline is Feburary 17th 2012. Inquires can be made to cfpATappsecdcDOTorg.

To submit a paper, you will have to sign up for an EasyChair account at https://www.easychair.org/account/signup.cgi.

Topics
In accordance with the broader OWASP mission stemming from the 2011 OWASP Global Summit, AppSec DC is working to reflect the move of OWASP towards embracing all facets of Application Security, and not restricting it's content to strictly to the realm of web applications. Therefore we invite all practitioners of application security and those who work with or interact with all facets of application security to submit papers and participate in the conference.

The AppSec DC 2012 Content Committee is seeking presentations in the following subject areas:


 * OWASP Projects
 * Research in Application Security Defense (Defense & Countermeasures)
 * Research in Application Security Offense (Vulnerabilities & Exploits)
 * Web Application Security
 * Critical Infrastructure Security
 * Mobile Security
 * Government Initiatives & Government Case Studies
 * Effective Case studies in Policy, Governance, Architecture or Life Cycle
 * and other application security topics

Submit papers to http://cfp.appsecdc.org. Submission deadline is Feburary 17th 2012. Inquires can be made to cfpATappsecdcDOTorg.

To submit a paper, you will have to sign up for an EasyChair account at https://www.easychair.org/account/signup.cgi.

Additional information can be found in the Conference FAQ.

= Registration =

Register Here
Registration is now  OPEN . You can register via at http://reg.appsecdc.org

Registration Fees
ATTENTION FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Enter code ASDC12FED for $100 off, limited time only! (must register with your .gov or .mil email address) For student discount, attendees must present proof of enrollment when picking up your badge.

Group Discounts
 * 10% off for groups of 10-19
 * 20% off for groups of 20-29
 * 30% off for groups of 30 or more

Who Should Attend AppSec DC 2012

 * Application Developers
 * Application Testers and Quality Assurance
 * Application Project Management and Staff
 * Chief Information Officers, Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Technology Officers, Deputies, Associates and Staff
 * Chief Financial Officers, Auditors, and Staff Responsible for IT Security Oversight and Compliance
 * Security Managers and Staff
 * Executives, Managers, and Staff Responsible for IT Security Governance
 * IT Professionals Interesting in Improving IT Security
 * Anyone interested in learning about or promoting Web Application Security

= Volunteer =

Volunteers Needed!
Get involved!

We will take all the help we can get to pull off the best Web Application Security Conference of the year!

More opportunities and areas will be added as time goes on. Our Volunteer Guide can be downloaded which outlines some of the responsibilities and available positions.

To volunteer please email [mailto:volunteers@appsecdc.org volunteers@appsecdc.org]

= Schedule =

= Training =

Training
Call for papers is now OPEN until December 15th 2011. Submit proposals to http://training.appsecdc.org

OWASP strives to provide world class training for a variety of skill levels and interests at its conferences. From the novice to the expert, developers to managers, there is a training course at AppSec DC for you! Classes will begin at 9 AM each day and run until 5 PM (Daily schedule set by the trainer). Morning refreshments and lunch will be provided. Check each course for the required materials.

Price per attendee (conference Registration is a separate item):
 * 2-Day Class $1495
 * 1-Day Class $745

Assessing and Exploiting Web Applications with Samurai-WTF | 2 Day | Course Detail
Come take the official Samurai-WTF training course given by the two founders and lead developers of the project! You will learn the latest Samurai-WTF open source tools and as well as the latest techniques to perform web application penetration tests. After a quick overview of pen testing methodology, the instructors will lead you through the penetration and exploitation of various web applications, including client side attacks using flaws within the application. Different sets of open source tools will be used on each web application, allowing you to learn first hand the pros and cons of each tool. After you have gained experience with the Samurai-WTF tools, you will be challenged with a capture the flag event. This final challenge will give you time to practice your new skills at your own pace and experiment with your favorite new tools. This experience will help you gain the confidence and knowledge necessary to perform web application assessments and expose you to the wealth of freely available, open source tools.

Building Secure Android Apps | 2 Day | Course Detail
The course focuses on building secure mobile applications for the Android platform. Students will learn about the Android security model and platform security features. They will be introduced to mobile application threat modeling, and learn how to apply the outcomes of threat modeling directly into their design and development processes. The OWASP Mobile Top 10 Risks and Controls will be covered at great length. After students are taught foundational information, they will learn how to properly use the various Android components and APIs to reduce the amount of vulnerabilities within production code. Hands-on labs will use the vulnerable mobile Android applications provided by the OWASP GoatDroid project. Students will learn many techniques for performing source code reviews, penetration testing, and forensic analysis of Android applications. Hands-on exercises represent a large portion of the course. Each concept presented will include examples of insecure and secure code, along with strategies for remediation. By teaching students how to identify and exploit various security flaws, they will gain a greater understanding of how the security controls actually protect their applications. At the end of this two-day course, attendees should understand how to build secure applications, perform source code reviews, and perform penetration testing for Android applications. They will also understand and be able to demonstrate expertise at applying security controls to applications for addressing many security defects. Each student will ultimately take back with them to their workplace a repeatable and reliable methodology for building and maintaining secure Android applications.

Secure Web Application Development Training | 2 Day | Course Detail
Writing Secure code is the most effective method to securing your web applications. Writing secure code takes skill and know-how but results in a more stable and robust application and assists in protecting an organisations brand. Application security is not commonly a part of many computer science curricula today and most organizations have not focused on instituting a culture that includes application security as a core part of their software development training efforts. This intensive one-day course focuses on the most common web application security problems, including aspects of both the OWASP Top Ten (2010) and the MITRE Top 25. The course will introduce and demonstrate application assessment techniques, illustrating how application vulnerabilities can be exploited so students really understand how to avoid introducing such vulnerabilities in their code.

The Art of exploiting Injection Flaws | 2 Day | Course Detail
OWASP rates injection flaws as the most critical vulnerability within the Top 10 most Critical Web Application Security Risks under the OWASP Top 10 project. http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2010-A1. This hands-on session will only focus on the injection flaws and the attendees will get an "in-depth" understanding of the flaws arising from this vulnerability. The topics covered in the class are, SQL Injection, XPATH Injection, LDAP Injection, Hibernate Query Language Injection, Direct OS Code Injection, and XML Entity Injection. The workshop covers classical issues such as SQL Injection, which is an oldie yet very relevant in today's scenario as well as some lesser known injection flaws such as LDAP, XPATH and XML Injection. During the 2 days course, the attendees will have access to a number of challenges for each flaw and they will learn a variety of exploitation techniques used by the attackers in the wild. Identify, extract, escalate, execute; we have got it all covered.

Virtual Patching Workshop | 2 Day | Course Detail
Identification of web application vulnerabilities is only half the battle with remediation efforts as the other. Let's face the facts, there are many real world business scenarios where it is not possible to update web application code in either a timely manner or at all. This is where the tactical use-case of implementing a web application firewall to address identified issues proves its worth. This workshop is intended to provide an overview of the recommended practices for utilizing a web application firewall for virtual patching. After discussing the framework to use, we will then present a very interesting OWASP Summer of Code Project where the challenge was to attempt to mitigate as many of the OWASP WebGoat vulnerabilities as possible using the open source ModSecurity web application firewall. During the workshop, we will discuss both WebGoat and ModSecurity and provide in-depth walk-throughs of the complex fixes. Examples will include addressing not only attacks but the underlying vulnerabilities, using data persistence for multiple-step processes, content injection and even examples of the new LUA programming language API. The goal of this workshop is to both highlight cutting edge mitigation options using a web application firewall and to show how it can effectively be used by security consultants who traditionally could only offer source code fixes.

1 Day Classes
===Application Source Code Analysis - Discovering Vulnerabilities in Web 2.0, HTML5 and RIA  | 1 Day (4/2/2012) | Course Detail=== Enterprise application source code, independent of languages and platforms, is a major source of vulnerabilities. The class is designed and developed to focus on enterprise architecture and application analytics to discover vulnerabilities across Web 2.0, RIA and HTML5. We will be covering analysis techniques, with tools, for assessment and review of enterprise application source code. It is imperative to know source code review methodologies and strategies for analysis. The emphasis of the class would be to develop a complete understanding of source code analysis, techniques and tools to address top set of vulnerabilities. Knowledge gained would help in analyzing and securing next generation enterprise applications at all different stages - architecture, design and/or development. The course is designed and delivered by the author of "Web Hacking: Attacks and Defenses", ?Hacking Web Services? and ?Web 2.0 Security ? Defending Ajax, RIA and SOA?, bringing his experience in application security and research to the curriculum.

Pratical Threat Modeling | 1 Day (4/2/2012) | Course Detail
Threat modeling is gaining traction as a fundamental application security activity. In this class students learn about the attacks that their applications may face and then both formal and informal approaches to threat modeling. Using a fictional scenario, students perform all the activities of a threat model on a complex application ? including analyzing design documents and role-playing interviews. Students learn about the industry standard formal threat modeling process as well as Facilitated Application Threat Modeling: a 1-day approach to threat modeling pioneered by Security Compass. Students will also be taught about Security Compass?s unique source-code/design-pattern level threat modeling.

Mobile Hacking and Securing | 1 Day (4/3/2012)| Course Detail
Students will discover mobile hacking techniques for Android and iPhone. They will understand the platform security models, device security models, app analysis, file system analysis and runtime analysis for these popular mobile operating systems. This course will provide students with the knowledge necessary to assess mobile app security including what hackers look for in mobile apps. Hacking apps themselves will equip them with the skills required to protect their own apps from attacks. Students will come out with an understanding of the pitfalls to mobile device security and the importance of developing mobile apps securely. They will learn the concepts necessary to securely develop mobile in your organization.

WebAppSec: Developing Secure Web Applications | 1 Day (4/3/2012)| Course Detail
Web applications continue to be the frontier of wide-spread security breaches. This tutorial will guide through development practices to ensure the security and integrity of web applications, in turn protecting user data and the infrastructure the application runs on. Several attack types and risks will be reviewed (including OWASP?s Top 10), along with how the proper development practices can mitigate their damage. Although examples covered are PHP-based, much of the content is also applicable to other languages. This course was sold out at AppSec USA 2011.

= Contests =

OWASP Member Door Prizes!
Are you an OWASP Member? At AppSecDC we will be giving away some amazing door prizes to some randomly selected OWASP members in attendance. You HAVE to be an OWASP member to be elligable, but if your not, you can easily add the $50 annual membership to your conference ticket and recieve $50 off admission. That's right, FREE OWASP MEMBERSHIP when combined with AppSec DC Registration! So remember to Register today with your OWASP membership!

This years contests vary in length, challenges, objectives and the skill-set of the participants. The goal of this year's ASDC challenges are to include application security folks of all backgrounds from developers to ninjas and to do so in a fun environment that keeps contestants scratching their heads. Contestants have the option of either participating in a more relaxed environment with shorter contest length or going for the more intense route. Contests consist of:

TBD

= Venue =

Walter E. Washington Convention Center
AppSec DC 2012 will be taking place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington DC.

The convention center is located over the Mount Vernon Square/Convention Center Metro stop on the Green and Yellow lines of the DC Metro, and only a few blocks from our convention hotel, the Grand Hyatt Washington (reserve rooms here).

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= Hotel =

Rooms are available at the Grand Hyatt Washington at the GSA Rate for April of 2012.

Reserve Rooms here!

Room Rates are only guaranteed through the first week of March. Rooms at the discounted rates are available three days before and after the conference dates for attendees wishing to enjoy Washington DC during the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

=Sponsors =

Sponsors
We are currently soliciting sponsors for the AppSec DC Conference. Please refer to our sponsorship opportunities for details. Please contact us at [mailto:sponsors@appsecdc.org sponsors@appsecdc.org] for sponsorship opportunities.

The OWASP AppSec DC Conference is the premier gathering for Information Security leaders. Executives from the US Government, Fortune 500 firms, technical thought leaders, security architects and lead developers, gather to share cutting-edge ideas, initiatives and technology advancements. AppSec DC will be one of the first OWASP conferences to highlight the new OWASP scope expanding from web to all application security issues.

Attendees will be pushed through the Expo floor for breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks giving them direct access to sponsors’ booths and technology. OWASP will also be hosting a “sponsor passport” game with a top prize to help encourage traffic to all of our Gold, Platinum and Diamond sponsors. The conference is expected to draw over 600 national and international attendees; all with budgets dedicated to web application security and software assurance initiatives. Government, Financial Services, Media, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Technology, and many other verticals will be represented.



= Travel =

Traveling to the DC Metro Area
The Washington DC Area is serviced by three airports -- Reagan National (DCA), Dulles (IAD), and Thurgood Marshall Baltimore/Washington International (BWI). All currently have available transportation to downtown DC via public transportation, shuttles, or cab.

Washington DC is also serviced by Amtrak, VRE, and MARC train lines, which arrive in Union Station, a few metro stops or a short cab ride away from the convention center and the Grand Hyatt.

If you live in the DC Metropolitan area, we suggest taking Metro to the event. The convention center is located over the Mount Vernon Square/Convention Center Metro stop on the Green and Yellow lines of the DC Metro.

= Conference Committee =

Organizers
Mail List: [mailto:organizers@appsecdc.org organizers@appsecdc.org]


 * [mailto:doug.wilson@owasp.org Doug Wilson]
 * [mailto:mark.bristow@owasp.org Mark Bristow]

Arch-Minions
Mail List: [mailto:leads@appsecdc.org leads@appsecdc.org]


 * Facilities ([mailto:facilities@appsecdc.org facilities@appsecdc.org])


 * Content ([mailto:content@appsecdc.org content@appsecdc.org])


 * Press ([mailto:press@appsecdc.org press@appsecdc.org])


 * Registration/Info Desk ([mailto:info@appsecdc.org info@appsecdc.org])


 * Volunteer Coordinators ([mailto:volunteers@appsecdc.org volunteers@appsecdc.org])


 * Competitions/Contests/Events ([mailto:contests@appsecdc.org contests@appsecdc.org])


 * Marketing/Community Outreach ([mailto:outreach@appsecdc.org outreach@appsecdc.org])


 * Sponsorships ([mailto:sponsors@appsecdc.org sponsors@appsecdc.org])

=FAQ=