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We will be using EventBrite for meeting RSVPs. February meeting speaker is Alex Stamos, topic is Cloud Computing Security. It is an updated talk of the one he presented at OWASP meeting and ISSA-LA conference last year.

It will be hosted at AT&T Interactive in Glendale. I will send out directions and (free) parking information. It will be on February 24 (NOT February 17 as usual) because of my travel schedule. I hope this will give a chance for those on east side of downtown to come to OWASP meeting.

March meeting will be at Symantec in Culver City. Speaker is Mike Schrenk, author of "Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers" It will be on March 17.

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 7:30PM

 * Do VLANs allow for good application security?

Meeting Location Symantec Corporation 900 Corporate Pointe Culver City, CA 90230 Laguna Conference Room

Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) are not a new concept, and can help any organization better control network access. I will present some of the previous issues identified, what was the root cause, and how these have been fixed in current technology. In addition we will talk about how this can help to enhance security in your environment, and what controls must be in place in order to implement such an environment. We will also touch on how this can complicate your application environment, but improve overall security.

I will touch on the controls that need to be reviewed and audited when working with VMware, VLANs, and web applications, to ensure that these networks are secure, and what to look for to potentially pass audit criteria. I will also talk about where and how these controls have been implemented in order to protect thousands of users while accessing one of the most hostile networks in the world.

David M. N. Bryan, Senior Security Consultant

David has over 9+ years of computer security experience including, consulting, engineering and administration. He has performed security assessment projects for health care, nuclear, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, banking and educational sectors. As an active participant in the information security community, he volunteers at DEFCON where he designs and implements the Firewall and Network for what is said to be the most hostile network environment in the world.

He is also an active participant in the local Minneapolis security groups both as a board member of OWASP MSP and DC612. His roots and experience come from working for a large enterprise banks, designing and managing enterprise security systems. In the more recent years he has been working as an Information Security Consultant to review the security and architecture of information computing environments.

= Would you like to speak at an OWASP Los Angeles Meeting? = Call for Papers (CFP) is NOW OPEN. To speak at upcoming OWASP Los Angeles meetings please submit your BIO and talk abstract via email to [mailto:tin.zaw@owasp.org Tin Zaw]. When we accept your talk, it will be required to use the Powerpoint OWASP Template

= Archives of Previous Meetings = A list of previous presentations conducted at the Los Angeles Chapter can be found here.

=Los Angeles Chapter=
 * [mailto:tin.zaw@owasp.org Tin Zaw] -- Chapter Leader and Chair
 * [mailto:cassio@owasp.org Cassio Goldschmidt] -- Board Member
 * Richard Greenberg -- Board Member