Presented at
AppSec USA 2012,
Oct. 26, 2012, 8:30 a.m.
(30 minutes).
Come hear about the State of OWASP from the OWASP Board
Presenters:
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Michael Coates
- Director of Product Security - Shape Security
Michael Coates is the Chairman of the OWASP board, an international non-profit organization focused on advancing and evangelizing the field of application security. In addition, he is the creator of OWASP AppSensor, a project dedicated to creating attack aware applications that leverage real time detection and response capabilities.
Michael is also the Director of Product Security at Shape Security, a Silicon Valley startup developing an entirely new type of web security product to protect web sites against modern attacks.
Previously, Michael was the Director of Security Assurance at Mozilla where he founded and grew the Security Assurance and Web Security programs to 25 people.
Throughout Michael's career he has advised major corporations and governments on secure architecture and software security. He's also performed hundreds of technical security assessments for financial, enterprise, and cellular
customers worldwide. Michael also maintains a security blog at michael-coates.blogspot.com
Michael holds a Master of Science degree in Computer, Information and Network Security from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Dave Wichers
- COO - Aspect Security
Dave Wichers is a cofounder and the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Aspect Security, a consulting company that specializes in application security services. He is also a long time contributor to OWASP, helping to establish the OWASP Foundation in 2004, serving on the OWASP Board since it was formed from 2004 through 2013, served as OWASP Conferences Chair from 2005 through 2008, is a coauthor of the OWASP Top 10 and has led the project since 2007, and has contributed to numerous other important OWASP projects including WebGoat, ESAPI, ASVS, and the OWASP Cheat Sheet Series. His latest OWASP project is the new OWASP Benchmark, which he's going to talk about at OWASP AppSec USA 2015.
Dave has over 25 years of experience in the information security field, and has focused exclusively on application security since 1998. At Aspect, in addition to his COO duties, he is Aspect's application security courseware lead, one of their chief instructors, and provides a wide variety of application security consulting services to Aspect's clients. Prior to starting Aspect, he ran the Application Security Services Group at Exodus Communications. Dave has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science, is a CISSP, and a CISM.
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Matt Tesauro
- Senior AppSec Engineer - Duo Security
Matt Tesauro is currently a Senior AppSec Engineer building an AppSec Pipeline and continuous security program for Duo Security. Prior, he worked full-time for the OWASP Foundation, adding automation and awesome to OWASP projects as the Operations Director. Previously, he was a founder and CTO of Infinitiv, a Senior Software Security Engineer at Pearson and the Senior Product Security Engineer at Rackspace. He is also an Adjunct Professor for the University of Texas Computer Science department teaching the next generation of CS students about Application Security. Matt is broadly experienced information security professional of 15 years specializing in application and cloud security. He has also presented and provided trainings at various international industry events including DHS Software Assurance Workshop, OpenStack Summit, SANS AppSec Summit, AppSec US, EU and LATAM. His work has included security consulting, penetration testing, threat modeling, code reviews, training and teaching at the University of Texas and Texas A&M University. He is a former board member of the OWASP Foundation and project lead for OWASP AppSec Pipeline & WTE projects. WTE is a collection of application security testing tools and the AppSec Pipeline project brings lessons from DevOps and Agile into Application Security. He holds two degrees from Texas A&M University and several security and Linux certifications.
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Seba Deleersnyder
- managing partner application security - Toreon
Co-founder & managing partner application security at Toreon.com
As application security specialist for more than 10 years, Sebastien has helped various companies improve their ICT-, Web- and Mobile Security, including BNP Paribas Fortis, Atos Worldline, KBC, NationaleNederlanden (ING), Isabel, Fluxys, OLAF, EU Council, TNT Post, Flemish Community, Agfa-Gevaert and ING Insurance International.
Sebastien is the Belgian OWASP Chapter Leader, co-project leader of the OpenSAMM project, served on the OWASP Foundation Board member (2007-2013) and performed several presentations and trainings on Web Application, Mobile and Web Services Security. Furthermore Sebastien co-organizes the yearly BruCON conference in Ghent (Belgium).
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Eoin Keary
- CTO and Founder - BCC Risk Advisory Ltd.
Eoin Keary is an international board member of OWASP. He leads the OWASP code review project. Eoin is the CTO and founder of BCC Risk Advisory Ltd.He has also led global security engagements for some of the world's largest financial services and consumer products companies. Eoin is a well known technical leader in industry in the area of software security and penetration testing.Eoin lives in Dublin, Ireland.
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Tom Brennan
- Founder, Security Architect - ProactiveRISK
Tom Brennan is a mage at Proactive Risk with two decades of hands on the keyboard building, breaking and defending data for clients worldwide. He is a an alumni of McAfee, Intel Security, SafeCode, Trustwave, WhiteHat, ADP, Datek Online and the United States Marines.
As a volunteer Tom serves the community as a elected member of the Global Board of Directors for OWASP Foundation, Chairman of the Americas Board for CREST International, participates as technical advisor for New Jersey Institute of Technology, County College of Morris and the Morris County Economic Development Corporation and is a Rockaway Township Official and member of the CERT team.
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