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Sponsors
We would like to thank Ounce Labs, Veracode, Oracle, CA, The Hartford and Microsoft for their generous sponsorship and helping make application security visible...

If you would like to sponsor either the food and/or door prizes for an upcoming meeting, please email [mailto:owasp@jamesmcgovern.com James McGovern] with your proposal. Independent of any financial considerations, sponsorship priority is driven by those who drive participation in OWASP to their employees and customers.

September 14th 2009
Hartford We would like to thank CA for sponsoring food and beverages for this event

OPENING REMARKS: 5:00 - 5:15 PM James McGovern, OWASP Hartford Chapter Leader OWASP where we are and where we are going : 5:15 - 6:00 PM Tom Brennan, OWASP Board Member OWASP FOOD BREAK: 6:00 - 6:15 PM WEB APPLICATION SECURITY ASSURANCE: 6:30 - 7:30 PM Gregory Gotta, SVP Security CA Any application that will face the harsh realities of the “front lines” in a web environment must be tried and true. This is even more true when the application is a security product intended to protect whatever sits behind it. This presentation will discuss not only the different methods that are used to insure this high degree of assurance, but also the risks and cost factors associated with this process helping customers and vendors alike to both understand and think about all facets of this process. Gregory Gotta Gregory Gotta has over 10 years of experience in the Internet Security arena and is currently the SVP of Engineering at CA for all initiatives delivered by the Security BU. Products include market leaders in the WAM, SSO, Data Access, and SIM categories. He has held this position since July 2007. Prior to that he spent 7+ years at Symantec responsible for all Network/Gateway Security products. This included Firewall/VPN (Raptor), Intrusion Prevention, Content Filtering, and Mail Gateway products. While there he also lead the initiative to deliver the first multi-function appliance to market while driving a number of key acquisitions in this space.

October 13th 2009
Hartford We would like to thank IBM for sponsoring food and beverages for this event

OPENING REMARKS: 5:00 - 5:15 PM James McGovern, OWASP Hartford Chapter Leader Cloud Security : 5:15 - 6:00 PM Gunnar Peterson, CTO Artec FOOD BREAK: 6:00 - 6:15 PM UML and Security: 6:30 - 7:30 PM Grady Booch, Fellow IBM Gunnar Peterson is a visiting scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and a project leader for several OWASP projects on Web Services Security. He maintains an information security blog at http://1raindrop.typepad.com. Grady Booch is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture, software engineering, and modeling. He has been with IBM Rational as its Chief Scientist since Rational's founding in 1981. Grady is one of the original developers of the Unified Modeling Language (UML)  and was also was one of the original developers of several of Rational's products. Grady has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive projects around the world.

November 17th 2009
Hartford We would like to thank Sentrigo for sponsoring food and beverages for this event

OPENING REMARKS: 5:00 - 5:15 PM James McGovern, OWASP Hartford Chapter Leader Attack your database before others do : 5:15 - 6:00 PM Todd Desantis, Lead Sales Engineer Sentrigo In this presentation, we will show typical security flaws found in PL/SQL and Java code due to programmer mistakes. We will demonstrate how to use existing open-source scanning and fuzzing tools to automatically find and flag such flaws, and also demonstrate how creating your own tools in PL/SQL can help you keep your code secure.

You will learn: 1. Common security mistakes developers make 2. How to use open source tools to find those mistakes 3. How to roll out your own PL/SQL fuzzer FOOD BREAK: 6:00 - 6:15 PM Project Aristotle: 6:30 - 7:30 PM Phil Hunt, Project Lead Oracle Todd P. Desantis Todd DeSantis brings a wealth of technical knowledge and a passion for using technology to better society to his position as lead North American Sales Engineer at Sentrigo. With a background in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Todd has been using his understanding of computer programming and database systems throughout his career. At Sentrigo Todd is striving to bring a higher level of database security and safety to the enterprise. Prior to Sentrigo Todd successfully helped Fortune 50 companies rethink data access paradigms with Endeca Technologies. Todd started his career at Enerjy Technologies where he helped organizations improve overall levels of Java code quality and visibility. In his spare time Todd, an avid audiophile, enjoys working toward creating the 'absolute sound' with hi-fi audio systems, and enjoys many different genres of music. Phil Hunt in his day job work on identity management standards for Oracle. He is particularly interested in issues of identity privacy and governance.

Call for Sponsors/Speakers
This is a call for speakers/papers. If we haven't approached you, but you believe you have a significant discovery or new research that the security community would value, or enjoy hearing about, we invite you to submit your presentation topic for serious consideration. Preference will be given to speakers who can present new and innovative technical content to a broad audience. Of course, all presentations are expected to challenge the brightest and quickest of attendees - we wouldn't have it any other way.

OWASP is not a vendor fair. Consequently, there will be very little tolerance for commercial content within presentations. Attendees will be encouraged to quell any shameless marketing that is not immediately backed up with rationale for its inclusion.

Some topics of interest for upcoming meetings include (but are not limited to):
 * Agile Software Development and Security
 * Breaking CAPTCHA
 * Hacking Cardspace and Identity 2.0
 * Breaking Commercial Software for Fun and Profit
 * Tactics for breaking software licensing schemes
 * Gaming, the next overlooked security hole
 * Hacking Mainframes/RACF
 * Database rootkits
 * PCI/DSS Compliance
 * Privacy considerations in software development

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Past Events
Agenda: Wednesday, June 10th 2009 THE ANATOMY OF SECURITY DISASTERS Marcus Ranum, CSO of Tenable Security Powerpoint presentation is located here

Agenda: Tuesday, April 30th 2009 RECRUITING ELITE IT TALENT Jordan Haberfield (Agile Elephant), SVP of System One

DETECTING BACKDOORS IN WEB APPLICATIONS Chris Wysopal CTO, Veracode

Agenda: Monday, April 13th 2009 AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY: 4:00 - 6:45 PM Scott Ambler, Agile Practice Leader, IBM Powerpoint presentation is located here

Agenda: Tuesday, February 10th 2009 OPEN SOURCE IDENTITY SERVICES (The Higgins Project) Mary Ruddy, Meristic

ENABLING STRONGER/MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION FOR ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS Ramesh Nagappan, Security Architect at Sun Microsystems

STATE OF WEB APPLICATION SECURITY Gunnar Peterson, CTO of Artec Group and Twin Cities OWASP Agenda: Wednesday, November 11th 2008 LIGHTWEIGHT SECURITY USING IDENTITY-BASED ENCRYPTION: 6:00 - 7:00 PM Richard Eisenberg, Architect at Voltage Security

Agenda: Wednesday, September 24th 2008

TOP TEN BOGUS TECH QUOTES OF THE YEAR: 6:00 - 6:45 PM Paul Roberts, Industry Analyst, The 451 Group Powerpoint presentation is located here

MAKING APPLICATIONS SECURE BY REMOVING SECURITY: 6:45 - 7:30 PM Andrew Stone, Senior Manager, Accenture Powerpoint presentation is located here

Agenda: Wednesday, June 11th 2008

CARDSPACE AND USER CENTRIC IDENTITY Chris Winn, Security Evangelist, Microsoft

IDENTITY GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK Prateek Mishra, Product Manager, Oracle Powerpoint Presentation is here

Agenda: Wednesday, April 30th 2008

THE IDIOTS GUIDE TO DEVELOPING BAD ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS AND WORST LOGGING PRACTICES Anton Chuvakin, Chief Logging Evangelist, LogLogic

KEEPING SECRETS: APPLICATION SECURITY IS A BUSINESS IMPERATIVE Jack Danahy, CTO and Founder, Ounce Labs

Agenda: Thursday, February 28th 2008

HOW WEB 2.0 HAS CHANGED THE LANDSCAPE OF APPLICATION SECURITY Chenxi Wang, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

EXPLOITING ONLINE GAMES Gary McGraw, CTO, Cigital

Locations
All meetings are held at the headquarters of The Hartford Financial Services Group (The Hartford), One Hartford Plaza, Hartford CT 06115 in the Tower Building, Atrium Conference Room. Free parking is available in our Tower Ramp Garage.

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