London

Next Meeting/Event(s)
Something special for March - two London events! More details will follow on these are they are finalised.

Thursday, March 8th 2012
Location: Royal Holloway University of London, Room BLT2, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX

Watch this space - dates for the rest of the year will be added as these are confirmed.

Thursday, March 29th 2012
Location: To be confirmed

Talks

 * Deep Access Control Best Practices and Anti-Patterns - Jim Manico
 * Access Control is a necessary security control at almost every layer within a web application. This talk will discuss several of the key access control anti-patterns commonly found during website security audits. These access control anti-patterns include hard-coded security policies, lack of horizontal access control, and "fail open" access control mechanisms. In reviewing these and other access control problems, we will discuss and design a positive access control mechanism that is data contextual, activity based, configurable, flexible, and deny-by-default - among other positive design attributes that make up a robust web-based access-control mechanism.

Speakers

 * Jim Manico is the VP of Security Architecture for WhiteHat Security, a web security firm. Jim is a participant and project manager of the OWASP Developer Cheatsheet series. He is also the producer and host of the OWASP Podcast Series.

RSVP
Details to follow

Future Events
Thursday, February 2th 2012 17:00-21:00 Location: Royal Holloway University of London, Bourne Lecture Theatre 2, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX Speakers: Sarah Baso, Dinis Cruz, Dennis Groves

Thursday, May 10th 2012
Location: To be confirmed

Thursday, July 12th 2012
Location: To be confirmed

Thursday, September 13th 2012
Location: To be confirmed

Thursday, November 8th 2012
Location: To be confirmed

Thursday, September 8th 2011
Location: Royal Holloway University of London, Bourne Lecture Theatre 2, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX

Speaker: Daniel Cuthbert (deck)

Title: Doing it for the Lulz: Why Lulzsec has shown us to be an ineffective industry.

Bio: Daniel Cuthbert is one of the Open Web Application Security Project Leaders and the Assessment manager for SensePost. He has been researching, and involved, with web application security since the late 90’s and has worked on a wide range of projects to ensure that the development life cycle is secure and the overall application can withstand today’s hackers.

Directions to Royal Holloway and a Campus Plan are available from the following website (Bourne LT 2 is in building 31 on the Campus Plan).

Friday, June 3rd 2011
Location: Royal Holloway University of London, Room BLT2, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX


 * Wordpress Security - Steve Lord ([[Media:Wordpress-security-ext.pdf|PDF]])
 * Wordpress is one if the most popular blogging systems in the world but is routinely used to shoehorn complex sites into a blog shaped box, often because of it's flexibility and ease of use. In this talk, Mandalorian's Steve Lord discusses common Wordpress security snafus and how to avoid them.

Thursday, April 14th 2011
Location: Charterhouse Bar, 38 Charterhouse Street, Smithfield, London EC1M 6JH


 * Wordpress Security - Steve Lord ([[Media:Wordpress-security-ext.pdf|PDF]])
 * Wordpress is one if the most popular blogging systems in the world but is routinely used to shoehorn complex sites into a blog shaped box, often because of it's flexibility and ease of use. In this talk, Mandalorian's Steve Lord discusses common Wordpress security snafus and how to avoid them.


 * Outcomes from the recent OWASP Summit in Portugal - London based attendees of the Summit
 * Discussion of what came out of the recent OWASP Summit, "OWASP 4.0" and what is changing in the OWASP world now and in the near future

Thursday, February 17th 2011
Location: ThoughtWorks, Berkshire House, 168-173 High Holborn, City of London WC1V 7AA

A special meeting event, in conjunction with London Geek Nights on SSL usage and dangers. An opportunity to get some of the developer and security communities together to talk more pragmatically on this very key topic.

Archived Events
For events before 2011, see Archived OWASP London Events

Other Activities
The Leeds UK, London and Scotland Chapters joint response to the UK Information Commissioner's Office draft Personal Information Online Code of Practice.
 * February 2010 - Personal Information Online COP

Open Web Application Security Project was nominated by OWASP London for the Best Security Initiative Award in the Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2009. Short-listed June 2009. Announcement due 2 July 2009.
 * March 2009 - Entry for Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2009


 * 16th October 2008 - COI Browser Standards for Public Websites

The London and Scotland Chapters joint response to the Central Office of Information draft document on browser standards for public websites (version 0.13).