Rochester

Welcome to the OWASP Rochester Local Chapter
Welcome to the local Rochester chapter homepage. The chapter leader is [mailto:andrea.cogliati@owasp.org Andrea Cogliati]

Rochester

Participation
OWASP chapter meetings are free and open to anyone interested in application security. We encourage members to give presentations on specific topics and to contribute to the local chapter by sharing their knowledge with others. Prior to participating with OWASP please review the Chapter Rules.

The Rochester chapter has two mailing lists: one for announcements and one for general discussion. The announce list is for official communications (e.g meeting announcements, web site updates, etc). The discussion list is for general participation and everyone is encouraged to post. The announce mailing list can be found here. The discussion mailing list can be found here. You can also review the announce and discussion e-mail archives to see what folks have been talking about. Please make sure you are subscribed to announce to receive any last minute meeting info.

Local Officers
 
 * President: [mailto:andrea.cogliati@owasp.org Andrea Cogliati]
 * Vice President: [mailto:rd@rd1.net Ralph Durkee]
 * Treasurer: [mailto:andrea.cogliati@owasp.org Andrea Cogliati]
 * Secretary: Appointed by Event Coordinator at each meeting.
 * Event Coordinator: [mailto:andrea.cogliati@owasp.org Andrea Cogliati]
 * Communications and Chapter OWASP Evangelist: [mailto:lou.leone@owasp.org Lou Leone]
 * Webmaster: [mailto:duane.peifer@gmail.com Duane Peifer]
 * Mail List Administrator: [mailto:duane.peifer@uberguard.com Duane Peifer]

Meeting Dates & Location
Dates: The third Monday of every month, starting at 6:00 PM.

Types of events: Formal meeting (featuring a presentation) in odd numbered months, informal event (open forum with beer and wings) in even numbered months

Locations:

Meetings reminders are sent to the OWASP Rochester Announcement distribution list at least one week prior to a meeting.
 * Locations for formal meetings will be announced with the corresponding meeting so please check here or the mailing announcement list for specific meeting location details.
 * Beer and wings at Mac Gregor's Grill & Tap Room, 300 Jefferson Rd, NY 14623 Google Maps

If you or your organization is interested in donating meeting space please contact one of the local officers listed above. The space should be able to accommodate at least 15 people.

Please note that for informal meetings at Mac Gregor's, everybody needs to pay for their own food and drinks.

July Meeting

When: Cancelled

August Meeting

What: Joint ISSA and OWASP meeting - Presentation on Incident Response

When: TBD

Location: TBD

Past Events
Michael Coates webinar on Attack-Aware Applications. https://owasp.webex.com/owasp/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=87764002&rKey=14191b8f8c73dabc
 * May 2011 Meeting

MercuryFest Speakers: Ralph Durkee, Andrea Cogliati, Duane Peifer Topic: SSL Man-in-the-Middle and Spoofing Attacks
 * May 5, 2011

Topic: Pastebin Scrapping Speaker: Silas Cutler, Global Crossing, Security Architect
 * March 2011 Meeting

Topic: State of OWASP and the State of Web Application Security Speaker: Ralph Durkee, Durkee Consulting
 * January 2011 Meeting

Topic: Man in the Middle Attacks: SSL Spoofing Speaker: Duane Peifer, UberGuard Information Security and Ralph Durkee, Durkee Consulting
 * August Meeting 2010

Topic: Client Side Exploits 101 Speaker: JP Bourget, BS IT, RIT 2005; MS Computer Security and Information Assurance, RIT 2008; CISSP; MCSE, CSS
 * June Meeting 2010

Topic: New Techniques in Application Intrusion Detection Speaker: Al Huizenga, Director of Product Management, Mykonos Software, Inc.
 * May Meeting 2010

Ralph Durkee presented a recap of the recent AppSec conference in DC. Andrea Cogliati gave a talk on Identity Federation and Claim-based Security.
 * February Meeting 2010


 * Oct 29-30 2008 - Rochester Security Summit 2008


 * The Rochester OWASP chapter in partnership with other Rochester institutions is organizing the third annual Rochester Security Summit Oct 29-30 during National Cyber Security Awareness Month. This year we'll have a full day dedicated to application security and we are are working to bring to Rochester the best national acclaimed speakers.

Visit Rochester Security Summit Site for details.

Past Presentations
January Meeting 2011 State of OWASP and the State of Web Application Security by Ralph Durkee [[Media:Ralph_Durkee_State_of_Web_App_Security_v8.ppt‎|PPT]] [[Media:Ralph_Durkee_State_of_Web_App_Security_v8.pdf|PDF]]

August Meeting 2010 Man in the Middle Attacks: SSL Spoofing by Duane Peifer [[Media:SSL_Spoofing.ppt‎|PPT]] [[Media:SSL_Spoofing.pdf|PDF]] August Meeting 2010 Man in the Middle Attacks: SSL Spoofing by Ralph Durkee [[Media:Ralph_Durkee_SSL_MITM_v1.ppt‎|PPT]] [[Media:Ralph_Durkee_SSL_MITM_v1.pdf|PDF]]

May Meeting 2010 New Techniques in Application Intrusion Detection by Al Huizenga [[Media:OWASP may17-10.pptx|PPTX]] [[Media:OWASP may17-10.pdf|PDF]] May Meeting 2010 Identity Federation and Claim-based Security by Andrea Cogliati [[Media:SAML and Claims-Based Security.pdf|PDF]]

February Meeting 2010 DC AppSec Conference Recap by Ralph Durkee [[Media:OWASP Rochester 2010 Feb.ppt|PPT]]

October Hackerfest 2009 Introduction to OWASP Rochester by Ralph Durkee, Lou Leone [[Media:Intro_to_OWASP_Rochester_v9.ppt|PPT]]

September OWASP 2009 Securing Apache Web Servers with Mod Security & CIS Benchmark by Ralph Durkee [[Media:Durkee_Apache_2009_v7.ppt|PPT]] [[Media:Durkee_Apache_2009_v7.odp|Open Office]]

May OWASP 2009 Key Management - One Perspective by Lou Leone [[Media:N-tierKeyManagementIssues.ppt|PPT]]

May IEEE 2009 Introduction to OWASP, presented by Ralph Durkee and Andrea Cogliati [[Media:Intro_to_OWASP_Rochester_v5.ppt|PPT]]

January 2009 Paranoid Programming Practices, by Lou Leone and Aaron Witt [[Media:ParanoidProgrammers.ppt|PPT]]

May 2008 Database Encryption, by Ralf Durkee [[Media:Database_Encryption.ppt‎|PPT]]

January 2008 SQL Injection and Dynamic SQL, by Andrea Cogliati [[Media:MoreSQL.zip|ZIP]]

September 2007 2007 OWASP Top 10 Most Critical Web Application Security Vulnerabilities, by Ralph Durkee [[Media:OWASP_Top_10_2007_v6.ppt|PowerPoint]]

October 2006 The first of the OWASP top ten: unvalidated input, by Steve Buck. PowerPoint

April 2006 PGP: Encryption for e-mail and web applications, by Ralph Durkee PDF

February 2006 Identity Theft, Phishing and Pharming, by Danny Allan PDF

February 2006 Secure e-mail, by Thomas Bullinger PDF

January 2006 PCI Compliance, by Pat Massey, Ralf Durkee, Maureen Baran PDF

September 2005 Two Factor Authentication for Java Applications with Client Certificates, by Ralf Durkee PDF Open Office

April 2005 Avoiding Backend Exploitation of Mail Forms, by Max Kessler PowerPoint Open Office

March 2005 Bringing Two-Factor Authentication to Web Applications, by Michael Starks PowerPoint Open Office

February 2005 Insecure Storage, by Chris Karr PowerPoint

January 2005 Access Control and Session Mgmnt, by Steve Buck PowerPoint Open Office

November 2004 Intro to OWASP by Ralf Durkee. Demonstration of SQL Injection attack and prevention, by Paul Cupo PowerPoint