Attended a great mini conference tonight, the joint Anglia Ruskin University & OWASP "Building security into application development" Web application mini conference at the Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
The speakers where Dinis Cruz, Fabio Cerullo and Colin Watson all from OWASP.
Dinis Cruz introduced what OWASP was and what it stood for, explaining how to particpate and discussed a number of projects they are running, including some they hope will be included in Google's Summer of coding. He also introduced a project he had driven the application security O2 project framework http://www.o2-platform.com/wiki/Main_Page
Fabio Cerullo discussed Open software assurance maturity model and enterprise security API and told us about ASVA, ESAPI, OpenSAMM and Swingset, with a demo of some of the features of Swingset Interactive which is an interactive tool that help developers use ASVA and ESAPI
Colin Watson finished the evening discussing the AppSensor project which is a Web application Intrusion Detection tool allowing real-time attack detection and response.
The conference was organised by Adrian Winckles who is looking to start a East Anglia & Cambridge chapter of OWASP and a local student group based on information security.
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