OWASP Monthly Meeting - March 25, 2015

Title: “Why Your AppSec Experts Are Killing You”

Abstract: Software development has been transformed by practices like Continuous Integration and Continuous Integration, while application security has remained trapped in expert-based waterfall mode. In this talk, Jeff will show you how you can evolve into a “Continuous Application Security” organization that generates assurance automatically across an entire application security portfolio. Jeff will show you how to bootstrap the “sensor-model-dashboard” feedback loop that makes real time, continuous application security possible. He will demonstrate the approach with a new free tool called Contrast for Eclipse that brings the power of instrumentation-based application security testing directly into the popular IDE. Check out “Application Security at DevOps Speed and Portfolio Scale” for some background.

Speaker: Jeff Williams is the founder and CTO of Contrast Security, bringing the power of instrumentation and real time analytics to secure your application portfolio. Previously, Jeff was a founder and CEO of Aspect Security. He also served as Global Chairman of the OWASP Foundation where he created many open-source standards, tools, libraries, and guidelines – including the OWASP Top Ten, WebGoat, ESAPI, XSS CheatSheet, ASVS and more. Jeff welcomes hearing from you and may be reached directly at jeff.williams@contrastsecurity.com.

Thanks to our sponsor Contrast Security (http://www1.contrastsecurity.com/)

Information about the Microsoft Technology Center: (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mtc/locations/losangeles.aspx)

The Microsoft Technology Center is located at 13031 West Jefferson Boulevard, Ste. 200, Playa Vista, CA 90094 in a business complex called "The Reserve." The major cross streets are Jefferson Boulevard and Alla Road; a large Home Depot store is located just east of the complex, also on Jefferson Boulevard.

Parking: Once you reach the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Alla Road, turn north onto Alla Road, which is a dead end street. Drive to the end of Alla Road and make a left turn into the last parking lot. Once you park your car please 1. bring your parking ticket so it can be validated for a reduced rate and 2. walk towards the outdoor patio space that is between the first 2 sections of the complex and you will find Suite 200 on the left side of the patio space. There will be signage too!