12Nov/090
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 with an agenda, people discount it"
Tom Brenan
Global Membership Committe 2010 Focus
- Global expansion
- 7x increase (2008)
- Vote your board members
Global Industry Committee 2010 Focus
- Building industry special interest groups
- Continuing to impact regulation (NIST, government, organizations, EU)
Dave Wichers
Global Conferences Committee 2010 Focus
- Support four global AppSec Conferences per year
- Support OWASP regional and local events worldwide
Sebastian Deleersnyder
Global Education Committee 2010 Focus
- Academic outreach
- OWASP bootcamp
- Roll out college OWASP education kits
Global Chapter Committee 2010 Focus
- Identify and reactive inactive chapters
- Actively support chapters with mentors and speakers
- College OWASP education kits
Dinis Cruz
Global Projects Committee 2010 Focus
- Apply assessment criteria version 2 to all projects
- Unified dashboard for OWASP projects
- Launch and manage 2010 season of code