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Welcome to the OWASP Helsinki Chapter

The plan is to meet at least three to four times a year, each lasting 1,5-3 hours (more active "hands" means more meetings). This chapter is based in the capital area and therefore the meetings will be in or around Helsinki.

If you wish to present at one of the meetings or have any other inquiries, please contact the chapter leader.

OWASP Helsinki meeting 2007, Security Requirements and SOA, Web Services & XML Security, TBD
This will take place around April or May. More information to follow.

Discussion regarding security requirements: How to create them, at what stage, by whom etc. Presentation on WS, SOA and XML stuff. Stay tuned.

OWASP Helsinki meeting 2007, Web Application Firewalls, Thursday, February 22 2007
Location: Nixu, Mäkelänkatu 91, 00601 Helsinki.

What are Web Application Firewalls (WAF), how do they work, what do they do and what don't they do. Discussion and sharing of experiences of various technologies and products.

'''18.30 Welcome. Mikko Saario, Chapter Leader.'''

Today's agenda in short.

'''18.35 "The Core Rule Sets". Ofer Shezaf, CTO Breach Security.'''

Better description of contents coming soon.

'''19.30 "Web Application Firewalls Technical Analysis". Joakim Sandström, CTO nSense.'''

Joakim's agenda: - Technology - Blacklisting & Whitelisting - mod_security features - Commercial products - Do's and Don'ts

OWASP Helsinki meeting, Tuesday, Dec 12 2006 at Ernst & Young
The Helsinki chapter had the first meeting at Ernst & Young office in Elielinaukio 5 B. The agenda and the presentations for the meeting are below. We had a good turnout: 22 people were present i.e. all seats were taken - we were very happy to see all these people to be interested in application security issues.

'''18:30 Welcome. What is OWASP and why OWASP Helsinki?'''

Mikko Saario made a short presentation about OWASP and the objective for the local Helsinki chapter.

19:00 Analyzing Threats (Olli Wiren; olli [at] juurihoito.org)

Olli Wiren discussed application related threats and corresponding security issues.

http://www.owasp.org/images/7/7c/Owasp-olli.pdf

19:45 Open discussion regarding OWASP Helsinki; what is expected or wished; how to go ahead and so forth.

There was a lively discussion regarding what type of activities should be arranged in the future. More details will follow...