User:Psiinon

Simon Bennetts (a.k.a. Psiinon) has been developing web applications since 1997, and strongly believes that you cannot build secure web applications without knowing how to attack them.

He works for Mozilla as part of their Security Team.

Some of the projects Simon works on:


 * OWASP Zed Attack Proxy project lead
 * Mozilla Zest poject lead
 * Bodge It Store project lead
 * OWASP Web Application Security Testing Cheat Sheet joint author
 * OWASP AppSensor contributor
 * wavsep contributor
 * OWASP Data Exchange Format project lead (currently inactive)

He is also started an co-leads the OWASP Manchester chapter.

Simon has a B.Sc in Computing and Information Systems from Manchester University.


 * To see Simon's open source contributions see ohloh
 * To see Simon's wiki contributions, click here.

Contact details:


 * [mailto:psiinon@gmail.com Email address].
 * Twitter: @psiinon

Videos:
 * 2012/06/13 Security Testing in Development and QA video

Talks:
 * 2013/09/23 OWASP Hamburg AppSec EU ZAP Innovations - slides, video
 * 2013/02/02 FOSDEM. Practical Security for developers, using OWASP ZAP - video
 * 2012/11/07 OWASP German Day. The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy - slides
 * 2012/09/12 OWASP East Midlands chapter meeting. The OWASP Top Ten - slides
 * 2012/09/11 OWASP Manchester chapter meeting. The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy - slides (same as for Dublin;)
 * 2012/09/06 OWASP Dublin AppSec. The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy - slides
 * 2012/04/14 OWASP Sydney AppSec AsiaPac. The Zed Attack Proxy - slides
 * 2012/02/01 OWASP Manchester chapter meeting. The OWASP Top Ten - slides
 * 2011/10/25 OWASP Leeds chapter meeting. An introduction to ZAP
 * 2011/09/23 OWASP Minneapolis AppSec USA. An introduction to ZAP - slides - video
 * 2011/06/10 OWASP Dublin AppSec EU. An introduction to ZAP
 * 2011/02/26 Linux User Group. An introduction to OWASP, the top 10 and ZAP
 * 2010/12/08 OWASP Leeds chapter meeting. An introduction to ZAP

Courses run:
 * 2011/10/20 OWASP Dublin chapter. 2 hour course: The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy