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San Antonio OWASP Chapter: November 2008 Meeting

Topic: "Who do you want to mash with? Trust infrastructures for Internet mashups."

Presenter: Ravi Ganesan,Research Professor and Director of Commercialization at the Institute of Cyber Security at UTSA Date: November 17,2008 11:30am – 1:00pm

Location:

San Antonio Technology Center (Web Room) 3463 Magic Drive San Antonio, TX 78229 http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=3463+Magic+Drive,+San+Antonio,+TX+78229

Abstract:This talk is in two parts:

Part 1: The University of Texas at San Antonio is announcing a new technology incubator focused on commercializing security and privacy technologies. Highlights about the incubator and how to submit a proposal will be described. Part 2: Mashups are emerging as a very important web application architecture paradigm. Developers (or even the users themselves) can assemble a uber app that  mashes data and code from myriad sources. This talk will first explore the emerging world of mashups and highlight the security problems that are raised, and motivate the need for a mashup trust infrastructure. It will then describe MashSSL a technology that can be used to solve several of the security problems of mashups.

Presenter Bio:

Ravi Ganesan is Research Professor and Director of Commercialization at the Institute of Cyber Security at UTSA where he heads up the ICS Incubator. His prior experience spans: running large complex IT operations as Vice President - Distributed Operations at Verizon Communications, leading the design, development and operations of leading edge payment systems as Vice Chair and CTO of CheckFree Corporation, and founding and running a successful start up in the security space during his tenure as Chief Executive Officer of TriCipher, Inc. He also has several publications and patents. Ravi has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. You can learn more than you probably want to know about Ravi at www.findravi.com.

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