OWASP Ottawa January 2020 Meetup

Hello Ottawa OWASPers!

Here is our schedule for our January 2020 Meetup.

5:00 Networking and Pizza

6:00 PM: Technical Talks

1. Announcements

2. Welcome to 2020: An Introduction presented by the OWASP Ottawa Leadership team
   a. 2019 Survey Results (Garth)
   b. Continuous Call for Papers (Nancy)
   c. Goals for 2020

3. The Lines of Code that Changed The World
   “Software is eating the world” is a famous sentence uttered by Marc Andreessen; co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape. Marc is right, software is everywhere, from computer to cars, phones, airplanes, and even appliances. We depend on software to run businesses, power plants, factories, airports and even our homes. Software IS eating the world, but that software is so buggy it is causing indigestion. The effects are everywhere: financial losses, cyber attacks, and reputation hits. This talk will go over the source code that literally changed the world, some have made our lives quite a bit better and some others caused a lot of havoc. This talk will also go over lessons learned, techniques, processes and tools to avoid making these mistakes again and improve the state of application security.

Sherif Koussa:
Sherif Koussa is an OWASP Ottawa Chapter Co-Leader, Software Developer, Hacker, and founder and CEO of Software Secured (https://www.softwaresecured.com). Sherif started his security career by leading OWASP WebGoat 5.0 as well as mentor, and exam consultant for Java and .NET for the SANS Institute. As an OWASP Leader and SANS Java and .NET SME, Sherif worked as an Information Security Engineer for Wells Fargo. Afterwards, Sherif started Software Secured, an Ottawa-based Application Security boutique company, where he helps his clients design, implement and maintain secure software through their software specific lines of services, products and training courses