Thoughts on OWASP
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Thoughts on OWASP

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About the Author

Dinis Cruz
Dinis Cruz

Dinis Cruz is the CISO of the Photobox Group and an active OWASP contributor (Owasp Summits and O2 Platform Project)

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
    • Change log:
    • Why This book
  • 1 OWASP Organization
    • 1.1 An Idea of a new model for OWASP
    • 1.2 I wish that OWASP in 2014 ….
    • 1.3 Improved Wikipedia funding page, why OWASP needs something similar, and who buys OWASP Corporate Memberships
    • 1.4 OWASP Board Election: Why I voted ‘Abstain’ and why you should go on the record with your vote
    • 1.5 OWASP Executive Director Role (Not yet)
    • 1.6 OWASP Principles based on NHS?
    • 1.7 OWASP Revenue Splits and the “Non-profits have a charter to be innovators”
    • 1.8 OWASP: Proposed change for SoC: Use budget to pay for project related expenses
    • 1.9 Proposal: Remove all commercial/non-OWASP logos from OWASP.org
    • 1.10 Sarah Baso as OWASP Executive director, how it broke the model, structure and culture of OWASP employees
    • 1.11 Why OWASP can’t pay OWASP Leaders
    • 1.12 Why the need to enable the use of OWASP chapter funds
    • 1.13 Why NDAs have no place at OWASP
    • 1.14 Me and Jim Manico
    • 1.15 On John Wilander….
  • 2 OWASP Projects
    • 2.1 160k USD available to OWASP Chapters and Projects
    • 2.2 If you ever doubt that OWASP needs more Project Managers/Resources
    • 2.3 On how to get paid to work on OWASP projects
    • 2.4 OWASP GSD Project (GSD = Get Stuff Done)
    • 2.5 OWASP Project Reboot 2012 - Here is a better model
    • 2.6 OWASP project reboot spent funds (not a lot spent so far)
    • 2.7 Project Management at OWASP
    • 2.8 ROI on OWASP investment on Projects (ie paying leaders)
    • 2.9 Some ideas for OWASP GSD Project
    • 2.10 The difference between being ‘Appointed’ and being ‘Accepted’ as an OWASP Leader (of its Fork)
    • 2.11 Why large OWASP projects start to stale (and who should pay for the work)
  • 3 OWASP Summits
    • 3.1 Great description of why OWASP Summits are special
    • 3.2 I want to vote for a Summit Team+Vision , NOT for a venue
    • 3.3 OWASP Flight Booking using Amex and Project’s Mini-Summit at OWASP AppSec USA 2013
    • 3.4 Some proposed Visions for next OWASP Summit
    • 3.5 Summits must be part of OWASP’s DNA
    • 3.6 When is the next OWASP Summit!!!!!
  • 4 OWASP Education
    • 4.1 Let’s make this happen: “Investing in Developing Software Security Talent”
    • 4.2 PDF with (draft) Exam of OWASP Top10 questions
  • 5 OWASP MIA (Missing in Action)
    • 5.1 ‘Using the HTML5 Fullscreen API for Phishing Attacks’, OWASP MIA and ‘We need SAST technology for browsing the web safely’
    • 5.2 Big Security challenges with creating APIs for US Gov agencies
    • 5.3 Example example of SQL Injection using Database.SQLQuery from GitHub (and idea for Cat.NET workflow)
    • 5.4 Guidelines of OWASP
    • 5.5 Hack Yourself First: Jeremiah at TEDxMaui
    • 5.6 I think the time as come for OWASP to have its own secure browser(s)
    • 5.7 Nice list of 20 online coding tools
    • 5.8 No OWASP app on the OSX AppStore (Nov 2013)
    • 5.9 OWASP and Privacy issues, we need to be involved
    • 5.10 Software Labels – Jeff’s OWASP AppSecDC 2010 presentation (another dropped good idea)
  • 6 Philosophy
    • 6.1 Happiness makes business sense
    • 6.2 The power of not being in power (and being ignored)
    • 6.3 We’re all mortals, so lets make the most of it
    • 6.4 Why do others think that I’m “hard to deal with” and that “I don’t listen”
  • 7 Application Security Industry
    • 7.1 Secure coding (and Application Security) must be invisible to developers
    • 7.2 Blogger in HTTP only? What happened to HTTPS?
    • 7.3 CI is the Key for Application Security SDL integration
    • 7.4 Etsy.com - A case study on how to do security right?
    • 7.5 Open question to Etsy security team: How can OWASP help?
    • 7.6 FLOSSHack TeamMentor and the ‘sausage making process’ that is software/application development
    • 7.7 I never liked the term ‘Rugged Software’, what about Robust/Resilient Software?
    • 7.8 Is there a spreadsheet/template for Mapping WebServices Authorization Rules?
    • 7.9 The next level App Security Social Graph
    • 7.10 Trustworthy Internet Movement and SSL Pulse
    • 7.11 Where to have AppSec Q&A threads (what about Reddit?)
    • 7.12 Is the TeamMentor’s OWASP Library content released under an open License?
    • 7.13 Reaching out to Developers, Aspect is doing it right with Contrast
    • 7.14 My comments on the SATEC document (Static Analysis Tool Evaluation Criteria)

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