ANNOUNCING: 2nd US OWASP AppSec Conference - Oct 11-12 - Near DC

["Dave Wichers" <dave.wichers () aspectsecurity com>]

Dear Colleague,

OWASP is proud to announce its second annual U.S. Application Security 
Conference. This year's conference will be held October 11-12 at the NIST 
campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland near Washington, DC. This location was 
chosen in order to encourage government, industry, and academia to get 
together and talk about the pressing problems we all face in application 
security today. Our first conference last year in NY had almost 150 
attendees. We are expecting to have almost double that at this year's 
conference. NIST's auditorium can hold 700 people so we have plenty of room 
this year. Lets fill it up!

A few firsts for our 2nd US conference:
- Sponsorship: This conference is being sponsored by the National Institute 
of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Significant Government Participation: Representives of various government 
agencies, including NIST and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will 
be speakers at the conference
- Training: A 1-day training course on the Fundamentals of Web Application 
Security is being offered the day prior to the conference
- Its not being held on a weekend :-)

Full details on the conference are available on the OWASP website at 
http://www.owasp.org/conferences/appsec2005dc.html

This year's speakers include:

a.. Joe Jarzombek - Director of Software Assurance at the Department of 
Homeland Security
a.. Ron Ross - FISMA Project Lead - NIST
a.. Jeff Williams - OWASP Chair and CEO Aspect Security
a.. Jack Danahy - CEO Ounce Labs
a.. Paul Black - SAMATE Project Lead and OWASP Conference Sponsor - NIST
a.. Diniz Cruz - OWASP .NET Project Lead
a.. Arian Evans - OWASP Tools Project Lead - FishNet Security
a.. Jeremy Poteet - Author of Canning SPAM - CSO appDefense

OWASP's AppSec conferences are dedicated to real-world application security 
issues and solutions. You'll learn all aspects of application security, 
including people, process, and technology perspectives.

You'll hear presentations on topics like:

 - DHS plans for Software Assurance
 - Status of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) 
Project
 - A Business Case for Software Assurance
 - Attacking Web Services
 - .NET Security
 - Software Assurance Metrics
 - A Survey of Application Security Tools
 - Details on the new OWASP Guide v2
 - Details on the OWASP .NET Project
 - Defending a High Profile Political Web Site
 - How to Select an Application Security Assessment Vendor

The exact agenda is still being developed and will be posted to the site as 
soon as possible.

REGISTRATION DETAILS: As a non-profit charitable organization, and with 
NIST's sponsorship, OWASP has been able to keep the cost to $300 per seat if 
you are able to register prior to Sept. 10, 2005. The cost to government 
employees is only $250 prior to Sept. 10th.

Registration information is available at: 
http://www.owasp.org/docroot/owasp/Registration/index.jsp

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL TICKETS ARE NON REFUNDABLE TO REDUCE ADMINISTRATION
COSTS

FOUNDATIONS OF APPLICATION SECURITY COURSE - Oct 10: OWASP has arranged to 
have a one-day hands on Web Application Security training course the day 
prior to the conference. This one day class will be held at the nearby 
Holiday Inn and is only $600 for conference attendees. Registration for this 
course can be done via the conference registration page.

More details on this training course is available at: 
http://www.owasp.org/conferences/appsec2005dc/training.html

EVENING SOCIAL EVENT - Oct 11: An optional dinner event is being held at the 
Holiday Inn Gaithersburg, which is the same location where the training is 
to be held on the 10th, and where discounted rooms are being made available 
to all conference attendees (see Accommodations below).

This event involves a dinner at the hotel from 7-9 PM, followed by drinks at 
O'Malley's Irish Pub right in the hotel or out by the hotel's indoor pool 
adjacent to the pub. We hope to see all of you there as this is a great 
chance to mingle and meet many members of the OWASP community.

ACCOMODATIONS: Information about local accomodations, including reduced rate 
rooms at the nearby Holiday Inn is available at:
http://www.owasp.org/conferences/appsec2005dc/accommodations.html

If you know others that would be interested in attending the 2nd annual US 
OWASP conference, please forward them this email and let them know about 
this opportunity.

Please contact me with any questions. Looking forward to seeing you all 
there!

Thanks, Dave

Dave Wichers, OWASP Conferences Chair
The OWASP Foundation
http://www.owasp.org