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OWASP Moves to MediaWiki Portal - 10:45, 20 May 2006 (EDT)

OWASP is pleased to announce the arrival of OWASP 2.0!

OWASP 2.0 utilizes the MediaWiki portal to manage and provide the latest OWASP related information. Enjoy!

WHEN
Thursday 14th of September 2006, 18h00 - 21h00.

WHERE
Agfa-Gevaert sponsors the venue, drinks and refreshments. Location: Mortsel, near Antwerp. You can find a map online.

PROGRAM
OWASP 2.0 Update ISSA Introduction Business Application Security through Information Risk Management Presentation + Discussion The presentation will show how ING has implemented business application security by implementing a risk management approach. By starting from the definition of risks and risk management, we have changed the program governance and project lifecycle to ensure that security is not seen as an add-on in a late stage of the project, but that the security requirements are defined in the early start of a project. By this approach the security requirements are becoming real functional requirements which are supported by the business. The net result is that security is not an after-thought anymore but totally integrated in the product and its (functional) requirements. As security requirements have become demands of the business, they are not taken out when the project is getting in time and budget constraints. These are all the positive consequences we have obtained from the method that will be explained throughout the presentation. Secure and Reliable Web Services Presentation + Discussion Web Services are becoming a very popular protocol for communication between IT systems within and between organizations. Web services offer a nice alternative for all sorts of communication middleware. The security of Web Services is a major attention point, now being well addressed with the WS-Security standards. Guy Crets not only explains what WS-Security is, but also opens up the subject by addressing many related topics: how does WS-* compare to B2B protocols such as EDIINT AS2, why not use SOAP over email or FTP, the importance of WS-Addressing, shortcomings in WS-ReliableMessaging, what is the importance of Microsoft WCF (aka Indigo), ... and many more.
 * 18h00 - 18h30: Welcome, get drink & refreshments
 * 18h20 - 18h40: Sebastien Deleersnyder, Ascure 
 * 18h45 – 19h00: Toon Mordijck, ISSA
 * 19h00 - 19h55: Serge Moreno, ING
 * 20h05 - 21h00: Guy Crets, Apogado

WHEN
Monday 8th of May 2006, 18h30 - 22h30.

WHERE
Deloitte sponsored the venue, drinks and snacks.

PROGRAM

 * 18h00 - 18h30: Welcome, get drink & snack 
 * 18h20 - 18h40: Sebastien Deleersnyder, Ascure 


 * 18h45 - 19h15: Hillar Leoste, Zone-H

Can "Agile" Development Produce Secure Applications? Received wisdom has it that secure development and agile processes do not mix. Is that really so? Agile practices have proven in many projects to yield applications with fewer functional defects. Can they also be put to work to reduce the number of security vulnerabilities? The audience added to the discussion with questions and remarks!
 * 19h15 - 20h30: Johan Peeters, Program Director secappdev.org

Meeting Notes OWASP Belgium Chapter Meeting (Leuven, 22-Feb-2006)
WHEN Wednesday 22nd of February 2006, 18h00 - 21h00.

WHERE KUL sponsored the venue: Location: Auditorium N00.01, Celestijnenlaan 200A, Heverlee. Itinerary to Dept Computer Science. Detailed map of campus with building N. BeeWare sponsored the Pizza and Drinks!

PROGRAM 18h00 - 18h20: Welcome, get Pizza & Drink 18h20 - 18h40: Sebastien Deleersnyder, Ascure OWASP (Membership) and new OWASP Projects 18h40 - 19h30: Philippe Bogaerts, BeeWare WebScarab demonstration 19h30 - 20h45: Web Application Firewalls (WAF): Panel Discussion First a WAF Primer was presented. Then we organized a panel discussion with people from industry, vendors and research: How mature are WAFs? What do WAFs protect you from? What not? Where do you position WAFs in your architecture? What WAF functionality do you really need? … A panel Discussion with:
 * Philippe Bogaerts, BeeWare
 * Jaak Cuppens, F5 Networks
 * David Van der Linden, ING Belgium
 * Lieven Desmet, K.U.Leuven

The audience (up to 50 !) added to the discussion with questions and remarks!

Belgium OWASP 2006 New Year Drink
On January 19th we had a New Years Drink. Presentation (TBD)

Meeting Notes second OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting (Leuven, 28-Sep-2005)
On 28th of September 2005 we had our second OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting. We had nearly 50 people coming to the meeting!

WHEN Wednesday 28th of September 2005, 18h00 - 21h00 at Ubizen in Leuven.

PROGRAM 18h00 - 18h15: Welcome & get a drink

18h15 - 18h45: Sebastien Deleersnyder, Ascure OWASP & OWASP Membership

18h45 - 19h30: Emmanuel Bergmans, I-logs Securing Web Applications with ModSecurity Emmanuel gave an interesting introduction on ModSecurity. The presentation is included as attachment and contains a lot of great pointers and SWOT analysis. Conclusions were: ModSecurity can be particularly useful in an ISP environment Increased effort is necessary to synchronize multiple ModSecurity configurations in a Webfarm

19h30 - 20h45: OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities: Panel Discussion OWASP Top 10: The presentation is included with an introduction of the TOP 10. Then we had a lively panel Discussion with:
 * Erwin Geirnaert, Security Innovation
 * Dirk Dussart, Belgian Post
 * Eric Devolder, Mastercard
 * Herman Stevens, Ubizen
 * Frank Piessens, KU Leuven

We handled questions about the Top 10:
 * Is the OWASP Top 10 still necessary?
 * Are we talking vulnerabilities, solutions or threats?
 * Can we base our best practices / standards on the Top 10?
 * How to test your web site security on the Top 10?

The overall discussion was interesting, and at times diverted to an overall application security discussion. Some of the remarkable opinions covered: Can / or should the OWASP Top 10 form the basis for a certification scheme If it is used as an awareness tool, can we promote it with an OWASP magazine? The OWASP Top 10 is too vague A bigger exhaustive list is needed with a clear classification and taxonomy It should be based on threat modelling. One of the more pertinent questions: how did the original authors come to the Top 10?

Meeting Notes First OWASP Belgium Chapter Meeting (Gent, 26-May-2005)
On 26th of May 2005 we held the first OWASP Belgium Chapter meeting!

It was a big success: we had nearly 40 people attending, despite the Belgium-unlike hot weather.

PROGRAM 17h30 - 18h00: Welcome & get a drink

18h00 - 18h45: Sebastien Deleersnyder, Ascure OWASP Introduction

19h00 - 19h45: Erwin Geirnaert, Security Innovation How to Break Web Application Security

20h00 - 20h45: professor Frank Piessens, KU Leuven How to Build Secure Web Applications

You can download the presentations. We had some interesting discussions with Frank on the position of security controls: within the code or within the supporting infrastructure? Another idea is also to look for a top 10 solutions for Web Applications and have some guidance system when selecting countermeasures.