OWASP Boston Chapter Meeting - July 2026

OWASP Boston Chapter Meetups aim to connect app sec enthusiasts and talk on any topic in application security. Doors open at 6:30pm and the presentation starts at 7pm. Pizza and soda will be provided. This will be an in person meetup only.

ONLY HUMANS ALLOWED! PLEASE BRING AN ID AS THIS IS REQUIRED BY OUR HOSTS. YOUR NAME IN THE REGISTRATION FORM SHOULD MATCH THE ONE ON YOUR ID

Thank you to our sponsors DirectDefense (http://www.directdefense.com/)

Talk Title - Identity Is the New Perimeter — Modern IAM, MFA, and the path to passwordless by Joseph Davis

Talk Description - The firewall didn't disappear — it just stopped being the line that matters. As work moved to the cloud, SaaS, and remote devices, identity became the one control point every request has to cross, and attackers noticed: today they don't break in, they log in. This 50-minute session traces that shift end to end — how modern identity attacks actually work (phishing, MFA fatigue, token theft, and adversary-in-the-middle), the IAM and Zero Trust foundations that hold the line, why not all MFA is created equal, and how FIDO2/WebAuthn passkeys finally break the phishing chain. You'll leave with a practical crawl-walk-run roadmap to phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication you can start applying Monday morning. Pitched for practitioners; no vendor pitch.

About the speaker - Joseph Davis is a Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft based in Salem, MA, with over 30 years of experience in information security, risk, and privacy