OWASP Newcastle May 2023

We're back! We’ll be doing our usual two talks and pizza format.

Please note; there is a new location for this event.

Rough schedule:

1800 - 1815 Arrival and networking
1815 - 1820 OWASP Newcastle Welcome
1820 - 1920 Talk one
1920 - 2000 Pizza and networking
2000 - 2045 Talk two
2045 - onwards Pub?

Talk overviews:

Talk 1
Title: Threat Modelling
Speaker: Robin Fewster
Speaker Bio: Robin has over 20 years experience in cyber security, and is particularly interested in helping companies to improve their security posture. A recent area of focus has been to assist development teams with improving their security practices. This has included implementing security strategy, security champions programmes and threat modeling as a new process. Robin is also a former OWASP Newcastle chapter leader.
Talk Synopsis: Drawing on some client experiences, Robin will discuss different threat modeling approaches and tools available, and how they went down with development teams.

Talk 2
Title: An Intro to DevSecOps, Devs like carrots not sticks
Speaker: Simon Gurney
Speaker Bio: Simon is one of the Punk Security Co-Founders and has over 15 years experience working within IT, primarily focused on automation and InfoSec.
Simon has a wealth of experience and approaches DevOps from an infrastructure background, but is a keen Python and .NET CORE developer. He has authored two open source projects, pwnSpoof and SMBeagle.
Talk Synopsis: In this talk, we will discuss how security tools and practices can be layered into DevOps to ensure that risk is managed but the flow of work is not unnecessarily constrained. We will talk about how you can automatically scan applications and environments for vulnerabilities, enforce robust frameworks and build better processes so security doesn’t fall between the gaps.

As always, tickets aren’t required but help us gauge how much food to order.

Live Stream Info: We're hoping to be able to live stream the event on our playeur channel if not, the talks will be recorded and uploaded there.

You can also join our Google Group which is how we'll be sending out emails to events and is also going to be used as a forum for discussion.

https://groups.google.com/a/owasp.org/forum/#!forum/newcastle-chapter