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Security OWASP AppSec 2008: Day 1
Jon and I had a great day at OWASP AppSec. For a couple of NYC newbs, we’re getting around really well! Starting at 7:30a, we hopped on the subway for the trip to the Park Central Hotel. OWASP is taking very good care of its attendees and we got in and settled easily.
The management training was very informative and challenged how I think about security. Coming from a small SaaS firm, I was in the minority as the training was geared heavily to large organizations. This was excellent because I learned from hardened policies established by industry leading companies. I took a lot away from the group discussions because many large firms had representatives, but I also felt I was able to provide some insightful “grassroots” knowledge and approaches that working with a small organization affords. The training also provided a nice primer on attack styles, best practices to secure them, statistics on vulnerability and business effects, and how to “sell” security. Looking very forward to putting together lessons I learned to enhance how we approach current and future security opportunities.
Jon seems to really dig his defensive training, we’ve been chatting and trading ideas back and forth all night. It will be interesting to see what the second day of his course brings.
Personally, we’ve been having a great time experiencing NYC in our off-time. Had lunch at the Carnegie Deli then took a stroll to Times Square. Got our real NYC pizza fix at Arturo’s for dinner tonight, then strolled around for a couple hours just seeing what there is to see. NYC easily makes you feel very, very small!
Cheers from Chinatown.
Security OWASP AppSec 2008: Day 0
So if you didn’t read over at the imebase blog, Chris and I have left the hallowed Innova Offices for a week to attend the OWASP AppSec ‘08 Conference in New York City!
I’m attending the two-day Defensive Programming course, which focusses on developing and maintaing secure web applications. The description sounds pretty interesting, and I’m excited to rock this one out.
Chris is hitting the one-day Leading the Development of Secure Applications course – lengthy title but it sounds like something that’ll help us all-around. He’s pretty jazzed about that.
Our hotel is pretty close to Chinatown, as the above picture proves. We had a fantastic meal at Joe’s Shanghai; the soup dumplings are just as good as advertised! I’ll be putting more pictures from around NYC and from the OWASP conference on the Innova Flickr Pool shortly.