This presentation was by Dave WIchers, COO of Aspect Security and an OWASP Board Member. My notes are below: What’s Changed? It’s about Risks, not just vulnerabilities New title is: “The Top 10 Most Critical Web Application Security Risks” OWASP Top 10 Risk Rating Methodology Based on the OWASP Risk Rating Methodology, used to prioritize […]
This presentation was by Chris Wysopal, the CTO of Veracode. My notes are below: “To measure is to know.” – James Clerk Maxwell “Measurement motivates.” – John Kenneth Galbraith Metrics do Matter Metrics quantify the otherwise unquantifiable Metrics can show trends and trends matter more than measurements do Metrics can show if we are doing […]
This presentation was by Rohit Sethi, the Project Leader for the Secure Pattern Analysis Project at OWASP and he works at Security Compass, a security analysis and training company. My notes from the session are below: Before anyone starts building complex systems, they need to design. We create threat models on completed designs. What about […]
This presentation was by John Steven, the NoVA Chapter Lead and Senior Director of Advanced Technology Consulting at Cigital, Inc. He notes that this is not that MS thing, it is not going to help you find XSS, and is not going to help you with Risk Management. My notes are below: Don’t use threat […]
General Goals Going Forward Showcase great OWASP projects Provide the best, freely distributable application security tools/documents Ensure that the tools provided are easy to use as possible Continue to document how to use the tools and how the modules were created Align the tools with the OWASP Testing Guide v3 to provide maximum coverage Awesome […]
This presentation was by Arshan Dabirsiaghi and was about the OWASP ESAPI Web Application Firewall (WAF) project. My notes are below: WAF Fallacies (at least in regards to OWASP ESAPI WAF) WAFs add attack surface WAFs can create culture problems WAFs can’t fix business logic vulnerabilities WAFs are way too expensive WAFs complicate networks Why […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
