I’m currently at the OWASP AppSec 2008 Conference in New York City and am listening to the keynote presentation shared by the board of OWASP.\u00a0 Starting off is Jeff Williams, Chair of OWASP.\u00a0 He talked about OWASP’s mission, what we’re currently working on, and offered the following suggestions on how to take OWASP into the future:<\/p>\n
1) Prioritize<\/p>\n
2) Set a useful research agenda<\/p>\n
3) Turn application security from a black art to a science<\/p>\n
4) We can enable secure coding<\/p>\n
5) Make application security into a movement<\/p>\n
Next up was Dave Wichers.\u00a0 He talked about the OWASP goals of improving quality and support.\u00a0 OWASP is publishing a “desk reference” guide on application security.\u00a0 Community outreach is a huge focus of OWASP.\u00a0 Over 100 chapters around the world.\u00a0 Dave is the Conference Chair and helps to organize these conferences.\u00a0 Let him know if you’re interested in putting one on.<\/p>\n
Tom Brennan, head of NY\/NJ chapter and OWASP Board Member starts talking about over 10,000 members on the mailing list and over 120 chapters involved in OWASP effort.\u00a0 Says you should get involved in OWASP!<\/p>\n
Next up is Dinis Cruz, another board member, who says he comes up with all sorts of crazy ideas for OWASP.\u00a0 Helped come up with the OWASP Grants ideas when the Belgium chapter had extra money in the bank.\u00a0 OWASP Spring of Code 2007 sponsored 26 projects at $125,000.\u00a0 Summor of Code 2008 has 31 grants and they are focusing on quality with reviewers, project managers, etc.\u00a0 OWASP has given out over $250,000 in grants since the Seasons of Code project started.\u00a0 Then he started talking about the OWASP EU Summit happening in Portugal in 2008 in November.\u00a0 Nice hotel by the seafront.\u00a0 Go to meet all of the guys who are influential in OWASP.\u00a0 Coming up with a bunch of training courses that are completely OWASP related and mostly done by our leaders.\u00a0 Lots of working sessions to start discussing projects and set the AppSec agenda for 2009.\u00a0 Five nights at a 5 star hotel for 300 Euros if you share a room or 600 euros if you want a single.\u00a0 It’s a deal!\u00a0 If you’re at the conference, they’re giving out free books.<\/p>\n
Last up is Sebastian Deleersnyder who compares OWASP to Second Life.\u00a0 A lot of people doing this as a second job, but it’s also a virtual community.\u00a0 Asks chapter leaders to stand up and everyone gives them a hand.\u00a0 *pats self on the back*\u00a0 End of keynote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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