[Global_conference_committee] FIRST and OWASP relations

Ralph Durkee rd at rd1.net
Fri Feb 4 11:05:02 EST 2011


I'm ok with giving it a try, we're likely to benefit at some level, but
it may not be all that symmetrical a partnership.  I haven't heard of
them before, but that doesn't mean they may be well known is some circles.

-- Ralph

On 2/4/2011 10:45 AM, Mark Bristow wrote:
> Ralph,
>
> I'm not too concerned that all their content isn't open, that's a tall
> order for an organization to meet.  I think however they do make much
> of their content available to the community.  I think it's at least
> worth exploring.
>
> -Mark
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Ralph Durkee <rd at rd1.net
> <mailto:rd at rd1.net>> wrote:
>
>     Might be a good partnership, but the core values aren't that
>     similar.  The public guides can't be copied without permission,
>     and some of the guides are for members only.  
>     http://www.first.org/resources/guides/
>
>     -- Ralph 
>
>
>     On 2/4/2011 9:22 AM, Mark Bristow wrote:
>>     Team,
>>
>>     Any comments or objections to this?  I'd like to move this forward.
>>
>>     -Mark
>>
>>     On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Mark Bristow
>>     <mark.bristow at owasp.org <mailto:mark.bristow at owasp.org>> wrote:
>>
>>         GCC,
>>
>>         Please see the email below.  I think this would be a good
>>         partnership as FIRST is a well regarded institution in the
>>         Incident Response community and has a similar set of core
>>         values with OWASP.
>>
>>         We could easily promote this as a "partner event" with FIRST.
>>
>>
>>         ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>         From: *Jeff Williams* <jeff.williams at aspectsecurity.com
>>         <mailto:jeff.williams at aspectsecurity.com>>
>>         Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:09 PM
>>         Subject: RE: FIRST and OWASP relations
>>         To: Kenneth Van Wyk <ken at krvw.com <mailto:ken at krvw.com>>,
>>         Dave Wichers <dave.wichers at aspectsecurity.com
>>         <mailto:dave.wichers at aspectsecurity.com>>,
>>         mark.bristow at owasp.org <mailto:mark.bristow at owasp.org>
>>         Cc: External - Ken vanWyk <ken at krvw.com <mailto:ken at krvw.com>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>         --Jeff
>>
>>         Jeff Williams, CEO
>>         Aspect Security
>>         work: 410-707-1487
>>         main: 301-604-4882
>>         Hi Ken,
>>
>>         Good to hear from you.  Will be in Portugal next week for
>>         OWASP Summit!
>>
>>         To me, this is a perfect collaboration between
>>         not-for-profits dedicated
>>         to security.  We've been wrestling with how to partner with
>>         *commercial*
>>         conferences for this kind of thing, but FIRST seems like a great
>>         partner.  I've copied Mark Bristow, who runs the OWASP Global
>>         Conferences committee, as I'd like to get their buy-in on
>>         becoming an
>>         affiliate.
>>
>>         Thanks!
>>
>>         --Jeff
>>
>>
>>         -----Original Message-----
>>         From: Kenneth Van Wyk [mailto:ken at krvw.com <mailto:ken at krvw.com>]
>>         Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:40 AM
>>         To: Jeff Williams; Dave Wichers
>>         Cc: External - Ken vanWyk
>>         Subject: FIRST and OWASP relations
>>
>>         Hi Jeff and Dave,
>>
>>         Hey, I'm sitting in Barcelona this week for some face-to-face
>>         FIRST
>>         Board meetings.  A topic of discussion has come up that I'd
>>         like to
>>         broach with you all.
>>
>>         We'd like to do a "FIRST Affiliates Program" for this year's
>>         annual
>>         conference (12-17 June 2011, in Vienna, Austria -- see
>>         http://conference.first.org/ for details).  We'd like to know
>>         if OWASP
>>         would be interested in participating in this.  The details are as
>>         follows:
>>
>>         - Cost to affiliate is $0.
>>         - Affiliates advertise/mention our FIRST conference via the
>>         link above.
>>         - Members of affiliate organization (in good standing) get a 10%
>>         discount off our normal conference registration fee.
>>
>>         Plain and simple.  If you're willing to mention our
>>         conference on your
>>         web site, we'll give your members a discount to our
>>         conference.  And
>>         we'd be willing to reciprocate if you're interested in that
>>         as well.
>>
>>         The only overhead is we'd need to get an authentication
>>         yes/no from you
>>         regarding any OWASP members who request the discount.
>>
>>         Do you think OWASP would be interested in doing that with us?
>>
>>         Cheers,
>>
>>         Ken
>>
>>         -----
>>         Kenneth R. van Wyk
>>         KRvW Associates, LLC
>>         http://www.KRvW.com
>>
>>         Follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>         -- 
>>         Mark Bristow
>>         (703) 596-5175
>>         mark.bristow at owasp.org <mailto:mark.bristow at owasp.org>
>>
>>         OWASP Global Conferences Committee Chair - http://is.gd/5MTvF
>>         OWASP DC Chapter Co-Chair - http://is.gd/5MTwu
>>         AppSec DC Organizer - https://www.appsecdc.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Mark Bristow
>>     (703) 596-5175
>>     mark.bristow at owasp.org <mailto:mark.bristow at owasp.org>
>>
>>     OWASP Global Conferences Committee Chair - http://is.gd/5MTvF
>>     OWASP DC Chapter Co-Chair - http://is.gd/5MTwu
>>     AppSec DC Organizer - https://www.appsecdc.org
>>
>>
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>
> -- 
> Mark Bristow
> (703) 596-5175
> mark.bristow at owasp.org <mailto:mark.bristow at owasp.org>
>
> OWASP Global Conferences Committee Chair - http://is.gd/5MTvF
> OWASP DC Chapter Co-Chair - http://is.gd/5MTwu
> AppSec DC Organizer - https://www.appsecdc.org
>
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