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Archive for July, 2012

OWASP AppSec Research 2012 Day 3

After an amazing performance by the OWASP Band, the first day of plenary sessions is kicking off in a few hours. Registration desk will open slightly after 8:30am and talks will start at 9:30am with an update from the OWASP Global Board. This first day of presentations is going to be rather busy, ending with [...]

OWASP AppSec Research 2012 Day 2

We hope you’re enjoying training and the university challenge so far. Here’s what will be going on during the second day of OWASP AppSec Research 2012: Training starts at 9:30am. If you ‘re attending training you should be at the venue at 9am and please don’t forget your laptop! The following courses starts tomorrow: Elite [...]

OWASP AppSec Research Day 1

The OWASP AppSec Research 2012 Conference is kicking off tomorrow! Check below what’s going on: Training starts at 9:30 sharp. If you ‘re attending training you should be at the venue at 9am. The following courses start tomorrow: Assessing and Exploiting Web Applications with Samurai-WTF in room C. Hack Your Own Code: Advanced training for [...]

Chapter Leaders Workshop

As part of the OWASP AppSec Research 2012, on Wednesday, July 11 at 1:30PM-5:00PM, the Global Chapter Committee is organizing a chapter leader workshop for all the chapter leaders that attend the conference. The workshop will take place in Room Z. Please check the venue map to locate Room Z.   Tip: If you arrive [...]

WAFEC workshop at OWASP AppSec Research in Athens

The Web Application Firewall Evaluation Criteria (WAFEC) is a key specification used by the industry to measure the quality of WAFs and to compare different offerings in this field. As the current document is already 6 years old, we have started the WAFEC v2 project to update the document to current technologies and security challenges [...]

Training Schedule and Room Allocation

Time schedule for training sessions and room allocation has been announced. You can find more information here.

Visit to the Acropolis Museum

On Friday, July 13th, 2012 from 17:45 till 20:30 we have scheduled a visit to the Acropolis museum. We have also arranged for a professional guided tour of the museum by an experienced archaeologist. You can find more information about it here. The cost to visit the museum is 10 euros, it includes both entrance [...]

AppSec Research 2012 Survival Kit

We put together a number of documents that will make your life easier while visiting Athens. If you need help on how to get to the venue, here is a photographic guide to reaching the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications. Also we have combined several useful information regarding, sightseeing, eating, getting around, or even reaching [...]

Panel: PCI Security Standards and Application Security

In this panel Pravir Chandra, Security Architect, Bloomberg Josef Nedstam, Lead Developer, IKEA John Wilander, Software Developer, Svenska Handelbanken John Yeo, Director, Trustwave SpiderLabs EMEA Jeremy King, European Director, PCI Council will be talking about PCI Security Standards Council: history, lifecycle and vision The role of Application Security in PCI Security Standards Recent breaches and [...]