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The Dallas OWASP chapter is proud to announce several new ways to keep in touch with the leadership and other members of the chapter and greater organization.

In addition to our Mailing List we also have a Dallas OWASP Twitter Feed a Dallas OWASP Facebook Page and a Dallas OWASP Linkedin Group. We invite you to join or follow whichever groups suit you, get involved with your fellow Dallas OWASP Chapter members, and we'll keep them all up to date with the latest official news and announcements from the chapter leadership.

Click any of the links below to visit the corresponding Dallas OWASP social networking groups:

June Meeting
When: Wednesday June 6, 2012 from 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Topic:  Is There An End to Testing Ourselves Secure?

Despite years of research on best practices to integrate security into the early phases of the SDLC, most organizations rely on static analysis, dynamic analysis, and penetration testing as their primary means of eliminating vulnerabilities. This approach leads to vulnerabilities discovered late in the development process, thereby either cause project delays or risk acceptance. Neither option is particularly appealing.

This talk is a an open discussion with the local chapter about if there are scalable, measurable approaches that actually work in the real world to address security early into the SDLC, with consideration for how agile development impacts effectiveness. Points of discussion include:

Is static analysis sufficient?

Developer awareness training

Threat modeling / architecture analysis

Secure requirements

Considerations for procured applications

Who: Rohit Sethi; Vice President, Product Development, SD Elements

Rohit Sethi is a specialist in building security controls into the software development life cycle (SDLC). Rohit is a SANS course developer and instructor on Secure J2EE development. He has spoken and taught at FS-ISAC, RSA, OWASP, Shmoocon, CSI National, Sec Tor, Infosecurity New York and Toronto, TASK, the ISC2's Secure Leadership series conferences, and many others. Mr. Sethi has written articles for Dr. Dobb's Journal, TechTarget, Security Focus and the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC), and he has been quoted as an expert in application security for ITWorldCanada and Computer World. He also leads the OWASP Design Patterns Security Analysis project.

Where:

Richland College

12800 Abrams Road

Dallas, TX 75243

Room: Sabine Hall: SH118

Map

Don’t forget to bring your lunch!

May Meeting
When: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM

Topic:  OWASP and PCI DSS Requirement 6.5

OWASP and PCI DSS Requirement 6.5. Keeping current with the OWASP top 10 and how it impacts companies PCI compliance and training. Tony will discuss how McAfee complies to the requirement and how McAfee must make changes to match the current top 10 as well has making sure that developers keep up to date on training. Who: Tony Gunn; Director of Security Operations for McAfee Where: North Lake College (Central Campus) 5001 N. MacArthur Blvd. Irving, TX 75038 Phone: 972-273-3000 Building: A Room: 206

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March Meeting
When: March 7, 2012, 11:30am - 1:00pm

Topic:  AAA for Hybrid Cloud Environment

During this session, presented by Symplified, we will explore four areas of interest.

Web, SaaS, Mobile Application Adoption Protecting sensitive data WAM for the Public Cloud Identity Sprawl

We will take an in depth look at what is driving enterprises to consider and migrate to Web, SaaS and Mobile applications. We then investigate Web Access Management where it started and why we need a new approach to meet the new needs. But we still need to consider the traditional tenants of Authentication, Authorization and Audit. These are still vitally important - even more so. Finally we will explore how identities are increasingly growing with this new paradigm and how we can control those identities.

Who: Cullen Landrum, CISSP is a Senior Systems Engineer at Symplified.

Where: North Lake College (Central Campus), 5001 N. MacArthur Blvd. Irving, TX 75038 Phone: 972-273-3000 Building: A Room: 206

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February Meeting
When: February 1, 2012, 11:30am - 1:00pm

Topic:  Web Application Vulnerability Testing with Nessus

This presentation will demonstrate how to configure and run Tenable Nessus to conduct basic and advanced Web application vulnerability testing including how to review and report the results. It will also include a brief introduction to Nessus so to give a basic understating of how to navigate and use the tool. Come join us on the hunt for Cross Site Scripting, SQL injection and other items in the OWASP Top 10 as well as known vulnerabilities in common Web applications and Web hosting platforms. (No real Web application will be harmed during this presentation.)

Who: Rik A. Jones is a Senior Information Security Analyst for the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD)

Where: SMU Caruth Hall Palmer Conference Center / 406 Caruth Hall 3145 Dyer Street Dallas, Texas 75205

Map (Caruth Hall is building 44 on the campus map link.)

January Meeting
When: January 11, 2012, 11:30am - 1:00pm

Topic:  OWASP TOP 10

Power point demonstration of OWASP Top Ten Web Application Security Vulnerabilities with actual hacking examples. This presentation will cover such vulnerabilities as SQL injection, XSS and CSRF. Discussion, hands on exercise and question and answer session.

Who: Matt Parsons, VP Parsons Software Security Consulting

Where: North Lake College (Central Campus) 5001 N. MacArthur Blvd. Irving, TX 75038 Phone: 972-273-3000 Building: G Room: 405

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Presentation Archives
This is a new program, we will start collecting our speakers' presentation materials and make them available for viewing and download here.

February 1, 2012
Title: Web Application Vulnerability Testing with Nessus

Speaker: Rik A. Jones, Senior Information Security Analyst for the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD)

Slides: [[Media:Web Application Vul Testing with Nessus 2012.02.01.pdf‎]] [[Media:OWASP Broken Web Applications 2012.02.01.pdf‎]]

January 11, 2012
Title: OWASP TOP 10

Speaker: Matt Parsons, VP Parsons Software Security Consulting

Slides: [[Media:OWASPtopTen.pdf‎]]

May 4, 2011
Title: Using the Mobile Top 10 as a Guide for Mobile Application Security

Speaker: Clint Pollock, VERACODE

Slides: [[Media:MobileTopTen.pdf‎]]

March 2, 2011
Title: OWASP WTE: Application Pen Testing your way.

Speaker: Matt Tesauro, OWASP Board Member, Project Lead for the OWASP WTE Live CD project, and VP of Services at Praetorian

Slides: [[Media:OWASP-Dallas-Chapter-Mar-2011-1.pdf]]

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Title: Using the Mobile Top 10 as a Guide for Mobile Application Security

Speaker: Clint Pollock, VERACODE

Date: May 4, 2011

Time: 11:30AM - 1:00 PM

Location: Southern Methodist University Dallas TX 75205

Room details: Building: Hughes-Trigg Student Center Room: The Forum (on the first floor)

Directions: For campus direction please visit http://smu.edu/maps/directions.asp

Parking: For parking, guests have few options, they can use Moody Parking Garage for $5, the machine takes cash or plastic. Otherwise, they can look for free parking spots on University Boulevard or Mcfarlin Boulevard.

Campus Map: An interactive campus map can be found at http://smu.edu/maps/flash/ Printable map:

Cost: Always Free

RSVP: Click here to RSVP for May 4th, 2011 (FREE) or Email [mailto:Ryan.Smith@OWASP.org Ryan.Smith@OWASP.org] This will help expedite the check-in process. Thanks.

Abstract:

The Top 10 Mobile Application Risks, or “Mobile App Top 10” for short, is a list of the most prevalent risks to look for in the mobile applications you are developing and consuming. Many of the risks in mobile devices are similar to those of traditional spyware, Trojan software, and insecurely designed apps. However, mobile devices are not just small computers. Mobile devices are designed around personal and communication functionality which makes the top mobile applications risks different from the top traditional computing risks. The Mobile App Top 10 can be used to determine the coverage of a security solution which can protect against these risks. A mobile app security solution can declare its coverage of the Mobile App Top 10 so customers can understand what risks the solution mitigates. Mobile app security solutions can be used in the development of an app, as part of an app store vetting process, for acceptance testing of an app, or for security software running on a mobile device. Speaker Bio:

Clint Pollock is a Senior Solutions Architect at Veracode. Since 1997, he has also created security solutions for large-scale enterprise environments on behalf of CREDANT Technologies and Netegrity. In his current role, Clint helps globally distributed organizations evaluate, track, and mitigate their application security risk. Clint’s greatest strengths are his enthusiasm, experience and determination to help customers succeed in maintaining secure, compliant systems, and avoid the consequences and bad headlines that come with application security breaches. Clint resides in Chicago, IL.

Sponsors:


We would like to thank Fortify for sponsoring the lunch for this meeting.



We would like to thank SMU for agreeing to host us until May, 2011

Meeting Details:
Title: Breaking the Paradigm of AppSec as a Disruptive Cost Center

Speaker: Peter Perfetti, Impact Security

Date: April 6, 2011

Time: 11:30AM - 1:00 PM

Location: Southern Methodist University 6425 Boaz Lane Dallas TX 75205

Room details: Building: Hughes-Trigg Student Center Room: Atrium A&B

Directions: For campus direction please visit http://smu.edu/maps/directions.asp

Parking: For parking, guests have few options, they can use Moody Parking Garage for $5, the machine takes cash or plastic. Otherwise, they can look for free parking spots on University Boulevard or Mcfarlin Boulevard.

Campus Map: An interactive campus map can be found at http://smu.edu/maps/flash/ Printable map:

Cost: Always Free

RSVP: Click here to RSVP for April 6th (FREE) or Email [mailto:RyanWSmith@gmail.com Ryan.Smith@OWASP.org] This will help expedite the check-in process. Thanks.

Abstract:

This presentation outlines the primary risk concerns for application security, audit, and compliance then expands on those topics to create a "Checklist for Application Security, Systems, Internetworking, and Engineering". The presentation begins with understanding the types of risks involved, the current pitfalls (and in some cases pratfalls) companies struggle to endure, and what we can do to fix them. The presenter outlines the basic foundation on how to build a program for success, debunking the myth that you can’t have operational stability, security, and compliance while reducing operating costs, and how using this approach helps to achieve this goal.

Applications are currently a major attack vector as well as being difficult to keep stable, secure, and compliant. But securing only the applications, or just the infrastructure can lead to compromise; and audit, compliance, and legal problems. By applying the author's philosophy and checklists to your organization, staff from support, engineering, application development, up to CISOs can more effectively work together to improve security and meet Executive Management’s tolerance for business risk while achieving business objectives. This presentation highlights the issues, demonstrates how the entire enterprise works together, and finally outlines a basic checklist and a methodology for CISOs, Developers, Administrators, and Engineers alike to ensure business and technology risk management work in concert with all technology areas, including audit and compliance.The method draws its strengths from proven frameworks such as OWASP, SAMM, Visible Ops, FFIEC, CoBIT, and ITIL.

Speaker Bio:

Mr. Perfetti has been working in information security for fifteen years. He has been involved in IT Security for the financial services industry for ten years where he has worked as an Information Security Officer as well as having been responsible for vulnerability and threat management, and security engineering. Mr. Perfetti worked for Viacom and MTV as the Manager of Systems Administration and was the Director of IT Risk Management for the National Basketball Association. He has a broad range of experience in both operations and security. Mr. Perfetti provided governance and guidance over risk and compliance issues for the Americas region of ABN AMRO as the Local Information Security Officer for New York. His responsibilities were primarily to manage the risk for infrastructure related technology and operations. Other duties included audit, business continuity, investigations, and security operations oversight. Most recently, he was head of IT Security & Governance at Tygris Commercial Finance. He was formerly the VP of the NY/NJ Metro Chapter of OWASP and is currently a board member of the local chapter. He has served on the IT Security Advisory Board for the Technology Manager’s Forum. Mr. Perfetti’s accomplishments have been discussed in two books on achieving high performing, stable, and secure infrastructure. Currently Mr. Perfetti operates IMPACT Security LLC, a private security contractor firm, that specializes in Vulnerability & Risk Assessment; developing, enhancing, and implementing Security and Risk Management programs; and Incident & Audit Response, Prevention, and Recovery.

March 2, 2011

 * Matt Tesauro will be bringing a professionally bound copy of the OWASP 2010 Top 10, signed by the authors Jeff Williams (http://www.owasp.org/index.php/User:Jeff_Williams) and Dave Wichers (http://www.owasp.org/index.php/User:Wichers) that he picked up at the Summit. We'll raffle this at the end of the meeting for all who've registered*. * must be present to win
 * We have posted the room and building information below, as well as information about parking and maps of the SMU Campus (2/9/11)
 * We have added an official EventBright RSVP page. Please Click here to RSVP for March 2nd (FREE) (2/8/11)
 * We have confirmed that Southern Methodist University will host our upcoming meeting on March 2nd. (2/7/11)

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We would like to thanks Veracode for providing a light deli lunch for this meeting, and of course SMU for hosting it.

Meeting Details:
Title: OWASP WTE: Application Pen Testing your way.

Speaker: Matt Tesauro, OWASP Board Member, Project Lead for the OWASP WTE Live CD project, and VP of Services at Praetorian

Date: March 2, 2011

Time: 11:30AM - 1:00 PM

Location: Southern Methodist University 6425 Boaz Lane Dallas TX 75205

We will meet at: Huitt Zollars room located at the Embrey building at SMU Main Campus (Dallas).

Directions: For campus direction please visit http://smu.edu/maps/directions.asp

Parking: For parking, guests have few options, they can use Moody Parking Garage for $5, the machine takes cash or plastic. Otherwise, they can look for free parking spots on University Boulevard or Mcfarlin Boulevard.

Campus Map: An interactive campus map can be found at http://smu.edu/maps/flash/ Printable map:

Cost: Always Free

RSVP: Email [mailto:RyanWSmith@gmail.com RyanWSmith@gmail.com] or Click here to RSVP for March 2nd (FREE) This will help expedite the check-in process. Thanks.

Abstract:

One of the pain points of application penetration testing is keeping all your tools up to date and installed on whatever computer you happen to have with you. After several successful releases of the OWASP Live CD, I had a bit of a think and decided that there was a better way. After a bunch of re-tooling (the fancy word is refactoring), OWASP WTE is ready for prime time. OWASP Web Testing Environment is a project to package application testing tools and make them available in a variety of ways - you pick what works for you: Live CD, Virtual Machine, ala carte installations on your existing Ubuntu system, or maybe even attack tools in the cloud. The choice is yours with WTE.

In this talk I will cover where OWASP WTE is currently, what features are available and what the future holds. The overall project goal is to make testing tools as widely available and easily usable as possible.

Speaker Bio:

Matt is currently on the board of the OWASP Foundation and highly involved in many OWASP projects and committees. Matt is the project leader of the OWASP WTE (Web Testing Environment) which is the source of theOWASP Live CD Project and Virtual Machines pre-configured with tools and documentation for testing web applications.

Matt has been involved in the Information Technology industry for more than 10 years. Matt is currently serving as the VP of services at Praetorian, leveraging his experience in application security and consulting. Prior to joining Praetorian, Matt was a Security Consultant at Trustwave's Spider Labs. Matt's focus has been in application security including testing, code reviews, design reviews and training. His background in web application development and system administration helped bring a holistic focus to Secure SDLC efforts he's driven. He has taught both graduate level university courses and for large financial institutions. Matt has presented and provided training a various industry events including DHS Software Assurance Workshop, AppSec EU, AppSec US, AppSec Academia, and AppSec Brazil.

Industry designations include the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). Matt Tesauro has a B.S. in Economics and a M.S in Management Information Systems from Texas A&amp;M University.

Linkedin Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/matttesauro

Dallas OWASP Chapter Leaders
The Dallas OWASP chapter leaders are:

[mailto:gmccormick@tmsgi.com Gene McCormick]

[mailto:andrea.wendeln@gmail.com Andrea Wendeln]

[mailto:mynoralva@gmail.com Mynor Alvarado]

[mailto:norm.smith75022@gmail.com Norm Smith]

[mailto:rikjones@dcccd.edu Rik Jones]