OWASP Ottawa Sept 17th 2025: Sufficient Logging & Monitoring with Robert Babaev

Welcome to our in-Person Meetup at the University of Ottawa

In-Person Location:
150 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa,
University of Ottawa
Room 117

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6:00 PM EST Arrival, setup, mingle, PIZZA!!!

6:30 PM EST Technical Talks

1. Introduction to OWASP Ottawa, Public Announcements.
2. "Finally! Sufficient Logging and Monitoring (MCP Edition)" with Robert Babaev

Abstract:
Finally! Sufficient Logging and Monitoring (MCP Edition)
Observability is a surprisingly important part of security, yet it's often the most neglected. In an age of AI, this can get costly, especially if you don't even know something is going wrong until you get 17,000 support tickets.
We'll go over some relatively painless approaches to getting set up with centralized logging, metrics, tracing, and a rudimentary SIEM. We'll also go over some other potential avenues for achieving better observability, and some tips and tricks for developers.

Speaker:
Robert Babaev is a recent graduate of Carleton University with an Honours Bachelor of Computer Science, specializing in Computer and Internet Security. He has done multiple internships at major Canadian cyber companies like Barracuda Networks and Software Secured, research into authentication and access control frameworks, and competed internationally in Athens and Prague in competitions through CyberSci. Robert's current projects revolve around knowledge graph RAG, observability, and MCP servers.