Boulder OWASP October Meetup: Everything Old Is New Again

Attention: We're changing from our default day this month to Tuesday, 10/21.

The OWASP Boulder Chapter is excited to announce our October 2025 Chapter Meeting! Scheduled for Tuesday, October 21st at the Rule4 office at 6 PM, with complimentary food, beer, and soft drinks. Join us for networking with your peers and a featured talk from Richard Bird presenting:

Everything Old Is New Again - How AI Is Capitalizing On Legacy Security Flaws

For years, organizations have deferred the basics—data classification, authorization controls, identity security, and evergreen governance. AI is now exploiting those gaps. This talk exposes the paradox of handing sensitive information to advanced systems while our foundations remain shaky, grounding the case in economic and historical evidence of accumulated security debt.

We’ll examine how over-privileged connectors, weak identity boundaries, prompt injection, and missing “circuit breakers” can turn autonomous assistants into high-speed breach multipliers. We’ll unpack the often misunderstood risk dimensions of GenAI and Agentic AI and what those differences mean in relation to our efforts to control them. The hard truth? In our rush to innovate, AI is already failing the security test daily.

The goal? For attendees to step away from the conversation and begin thinking about pragmatic approaches to orient their security programs toward an AI-enabled reality. Classify data before wiring agents do it; enforce least-capability, identity-bound tool use with approvals, auditability, and kill switches; implement “zero trust at the model boundary” with content filtering, isolation, and step-up authentication; and institutionalize safety testing that measures disparate impact and protects vulnerable users.

Special thanks to the Rule4 Team for hosting and sponsoring, we couldn't do these events without our sponsors. If you're interested in sponsoring the #1 AppSec Organization and our Boulder Chapter meetings, please reach out to alex.brown@owasp.org.

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AGENDA
6:00 - 6:30 Food, Drinks, Networking
6:30 - 7:15ish Main Topic Presentation
7:15ish - 7:30 Q&A and Discussion
7:30 - 8:00 More Networking