Perth Australia

Perth Australia

Shlomi Cohen of IBM Rational
The OWASP Perth Chapter is excited to announce our next meeting event. This meeting is generously being hosted by IBM, who are providing a venue, catering *and* presenter, Shlomi Cohen. Shlomi works in the IBM Rational business unit and was fundamental in the development of their AppScan suite of products.

Topic: TBA

Date: Monday 7th of September, 2009 Time: 18:00 sign-in, 18:15 start Location: IBM Building, 1060 Hay St, West Perth, 6005 RSVP: [mailto:christian.frichot@bankwest.com.au Christian Frichot]

Threat Modelling in the Software Development Lifecycle (Feb 2009)
One of the most important concepts being promoted in the security industry is security in the software development lifecycle. This concept is important due to two primary factors: By walking through a case study I hope to demonstrate the effectiveness of addressing risk during the earlier stage of the software development lifecycle, and that these activities are not solely the responsibility of the "security guy", but all participants in a software project including the project manager, business stakeholders and software designer.
 * It is generally recognised that by shifting security activities closer towards the requirements gathering stage, or the design stage, that less vulnerabilities will make their way into the production systems.
 * It is also recognised that the cost of mitigating vulnerabilities increases later in the lifecycle.

About the presenter
Christian Frichot is currently employed by Bankwest working within the Security Consulting Services team. His core responsibilities include phishing and online fraud response, security assessments, information risk assessments and other ad-hoc information security consulting. Christian hopes to spend more time in '09 focusing on education and application security, where he feels more effort needs to be applied.

-Updated 4/03/09 by [mailto:xntrik@gmail.com Christian Frichot]