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Defending Yourself: Integrating Real Time Defenses into Online Applications

This presentation was by Michael Coates, the AppSensor Project Lead.  Michael works as a Senior Application Security Engineer at Aspect Security.  AppSensor is a real time defense system with the goal being to protect an application by detecting who is bad and getting rid of them before they do bad things.  My notes from this […]

Development Issues within AJAX Applications: How to Divert Threats

This presentation was by Lars Ewe, CTO of Cenzic on AJAX applications and trying to explore the different implications of running AJAX in your environment.  My notes are below: Agenda What is AJAX? AJAX and Web App Security AJAX and Test Automation Vulnerability Examples: XSS, CSRF, & JavaScript Hijacking AJAX Best Security Practices Demo Q&A […]

Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM)

This presentation on the OWASP Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) was by Pravir Chandra, the project lead.  I was actually really excited in seeing this topic on the schedule as SAMM is something that I’ve been toying with for my organization for a while.  It’s actually a very simple and intuitive approach to how to […]

Enterprise Application Security – GE’s Approach to Solving Root Cause

The first presentation of the day that I went to  was by GE’s Darren Challey and was about GE’s application security program and how he took a holistic approach to securing the enterprise.  My notes on this presentation are below: Why is AppSec so hard? AppSec changes rapidly (look at difference between 2004, 2007, and […]

All About OWASP

The second presentation of the morning was various members of the OWASP board speaking about the goals of OWASP for the upcoming year.  My summary is below. Jeff Williams Cross Site Scripting is an epidemic We need to view insecure software as a disgrace Everything OWASP is free and void of commercialism “When information comes […]

Keynote: Collaboratively Advancing Strategies to Mitigate Software Supply Chain Risks

It’s my second year at the OWASP AppSec Conference and this year it is in Washington, DC.  The New York City Conference last year proved to be probably the best conference I’ve ever been to.  Based on the agenda and the facilities, this year is looking very promising.  Today’s keynote is by Joe Jarzombeck, the […]