Boston

Welcome to the OWASP Boston Chapter
To find out more about the Boston chapter, please send an email to [mailto:Jim_weiler@yahoo.com Jim Weiler] or just join the OWASP Boston mailing list.

We meet the FIRST WEDNESDAY of EVERY MONTH, 6:30 to 9 pm.

Everyone is welcome to come to any meeting, there is no signup or joining criteria, just come if it sounds interesting. Feel free to sign up to the OWASP Boston mailing list. This list is very low volume (2 - 3 emails/month); it is used to remind people about each monthly meeting, inform about local application security events and special chapter offers.

Information and an RSS feed for meeting updates about this and other Boston area user groups can be found at Boston User Groups.

Location
The Boston OWASP Chapter meets the FIRST WEDNESDAY of every month, 6:30 pm at the Microsoft offices at the Waltham Weston Corporate Center, 201 Jones Rd., Sixth Floor Waltham, MA.

From Rt. 128 North take exit 26 toward Waltham, East up the hill on Rt. 20. From Rt 128 South take exit 26 but go around the rotary to get to 20 East to Waltham. Follow signs for Rt. 117 (left at the second light). When you get to 117 turn left (West). You will cross back over Rt. 128. Jones Rd. (look for the Waltham Weston Corporate Center sign) is the second left, at a blinking yellow light, on Rt. 117 going west about 0.1 miles from Rt. 128 (I95). The office building is at the bottom of Jones Rd. Best parking is to turn right just before the building and park in the back. Knock on the door to get the security guard to open it. The room is MPR C.

Reviews
Reviews of security podcasts

Next Meeting
This will be the start of our fourth year!!!

Next Meeting - Wednesday, March 5

Main Presentation - Chris Eng; Senior Director, Security Research, Veracode

Description – Attacking crypto in web applications

This presentation will discuss penetration testing techniques for analyzing unknown data in web applications and demonstrate how encrypted data can be compromised through pattern recognition and only a high-level understanding of cryptography concepts. Techniques will be illustrated through a series of detailed, step-by-step case studies drawn from the presenter's penetration testing experience.

This is not a talk on brute forcing encryption keys, nor is it a discussion of weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms. Rather, the case studies will demonstrate how encryption mechanisms in web applications were compromised without ever identifying the keys or even the underlying ciphers.

Prior to joining Veracode, Mr. Eng was a Technical Manager for Symantec security consulting. He delivered high-profile security assessments for numerous Fortune 500 companies, focusing primarily on penetration testing of critical web applications, commercial software, and networks. He was a technical leader for Symantec’s Attack and Penetration Center of Excellence, designing a penetration testing infrastructure.

Before Symantec, Chris was a Principal Consultant and then Technical Director of @stake, Inc. While there, in addition to consulting, he led the development of WebProxy, a proprietary web application testing tool which became an @stake product in 2002

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Past Meeting Notes
Feb 2005

Application Security Inc. PowerPoint slides for the Anatomy of a Database Attack.

March 2005

Joe Stagner: Microsoft Let's talk about Application Security

April 2005

Jonathan Levin - Of Random Numbers

Jothy Rosenberg, Founder and CTO: Service Integrity - Web Services Security

May 2005

Patrick Hynds, CTO: Critical Sites - Passwords - Keys to the Kingdom

June 2005

Arian Evans, National Practice Lead, Senior Security Engineer: Fishnet Security Overview of Application Security Tools

July 2005

Mark O'Neill, CTO: Vordel - [http://www.owasp.org/docroot/owasp/misc/MarkOneill.pdf Giving SOAP a REST? A look at the intersection of Web Application Security and Web Services Security]

September 2005

Dr. Herbert Thompson, Chief Security Strategist: SecurityInnovation - How to Break Software Security

October 2005

Prateek Mishra, Ph.D. Director, Security Standards and Strategy: Oracle Corp Chaiman of the OASIS Security Services (SAML) Technical Committee - Identity Federation : Prospects and Challenges

Ryan Shorter, Sr. System Engineer: Netcontinuum - Application Security Gateways

November 2005

Robert Hurlbut, Independent Consultant Threat Modeling for web applications

December 2005

Paul Galwas, Product Manager: nCipher Enigma variations: Key Management controlled

January 2006

David Low, Senior Field Engineer: RSA Practical Encryption

February 2006

Ron Ben Natan; Guardium CTO Database Security: Protecting Identity Information at the Source

March 2006

Mateo Meucci; OWASP Italy Anatomy of 2 web attacks

Tom Stracener; Cenzic Web Application Vulnerabilities

April 2006

Dennis Hurst; SPI Dynamics: A study of AJAX Hacking

Jim Weiler; OWASP Boston: Using Paros HTTP proxy, part 1. first meeting with all demos, no powerpoints!

May 2006

June 2006 Imperva - Application and Database Vulnerabilities and Intrusion Prevention

Jim Weiler - Using Paros Proxy Server as a Web Application Vulnerability tool

September 2006 Mike Gavin, Forrester Research:   Web Application Firewalls

November 2006

January 2007 Dave Low, RSA the Security Division of EMC:   encryption case studies

March 2007 Jeremiah Grossman,  CTO Whitehat Security:   Top 10 Web Application Hacks of 2006

June 2007 Tool Talk - Jim Weiler - WebGoat and Crosssite Request Forgeries

Danny Allan; Director, Security Research, Watchfire

Topic: Exploitation of the OWASP Top 10: Attacks and Strategies

September 2007

Day of Worldwide OWASP 1 day conferences on the topic "Privacy in the 21st Century"

October 2007

George Johnson, Principal Software Engineer EMC; CISSP

An Introduction to Threat Modeling.

Jim Weiler CISSP

Web Application Security and PCI compliance.

November 2007 Tom Mulvehill Ounce Labs

Description – Tom will share his knowledge and expertise on implementing security into the software development life cycle. This presentation will cover how to bring practicality into secure software development. Several integration models will be explored as well as solutions for potential obstacles

Ounce presentation

Deember 2007 Scott Matsumoto; Principal Consultant, Cigital

Description – You Say Tomayto and I Say Tomahto – Talking to Developers about Application Security

Cigital Presentation

March 2008 Chris Eng; Senior Director, Security Research, Veracode

Description – Attacking crypto in web applications