Choose your own AppSec adventure && web2py and security

Agenda:

6:00-6:30pm - Arrive, eat, drink, and mingle
6:30-7:00pm - Chapter business
7:00-7:50pm - Choose your own AppSec adventure by Jim Manico
7:50-8:00pm - break
8:00-8:50pm - web2py and security by Massimo Di Pierro

Choose your own AppSec adventure

Jim will present over a dozen different appsec (mostly defensive) topics that the audience will vote on prior to the talk.

Bio: Jim Manico is the founder of Manicode Security where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. He is also the founder of Brakeman Security, Inc. and is a investor/advisor for Signal Sciences. Jim is a frequent speaker on secure software practices and is a member of the JavaOne rockstar speaker community. Jim is also a Global Board Member for the OWASP foundation where he helps drive the strategic vision for the organization. He is the author of "Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications" from McGraw-Hill. For more information, see http://www.linkedin.com/in/jmanico .

web2py and security

Bio: Massimo Di Pierro holds a Ph.D. in High Energy Theoretical Physics from the University of Southampton in UK. He is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the School of Computing of DePaul University. At DePaul he is the director of the Master program in Computational Finance. Since 2011 he is an elected member of the Python Software Foundation. He is an editor of "Computing in Science and Engineering", a publication of the IEEE Computer Society. Massimo is the lead developer of web2py (http://web2py.com), an Open Source Web Framework based on Python. It counts more then 100 contributors and 7000+ registered users. Web2py was voted by Inforword best full stack Python framework in 2011 and was the Bossie award in 2011 for Best Source Development Platform. Massimo wrote three books about Python: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=massimo+di+pierro