[Owasp-toronto] OWASP October Session

Wed Oct 6 12:08:33 EDT 2010

Hi All,

OWASP Toronto is back up after taking the summer off. We will be hosting it at a new location (425 Adelaide Street West, Toronto<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=425+Adelaide+Street+West,+Toronto,+Ontario,+Canada&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.037246,92.724609&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=425+Adelaide+St+W,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario,+Canada&z=16&iwloc=A>) accessible by King street streetcar (stop at either Spadina and King or Brant and King street).

We have 3 speakers lined up for the last quarter of this year.

In October we will have Joe Bate who is a Senior Security Architect of a Major Canadian Financial Institution. His topic will be "Armouring your Enterprise".
In November we will have Ed Bellis VP, CISO of Orbitz Worldwide. His topic will be "Using Open Standards to Break the Vulnerability Wheel of Pain".
In December we will have Derek Brown, CISO of an Institute that performs Scientific research in the health care system.

Please block your evenings to come out to the event and Please RSVP to laura[at]securitycompass.com so we can bring pizza accordingly. We will be going for drinks afterwards.

1st event is October 13th

Location:  425 Adelaide Street West, Toronto<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=425+Adelaide+Street+West,+Toronto,+Ontario,+Canada&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.037246,92.724609&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=425+Adelaide+St+W,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario,+Canada&z=16&iwloc=A>, Suite 702.
Contact #: 888-777-2211 ext 0 and someone will help let you in if door is closed.
Date/Time: October 13th, 2010, 6:00-7:30 PM EST
Title: Armouring your Enterprise
Description: Technology security analysts are beginning to recognize the climate changes as a result of rapid advancements technology innovations that are transforming the landscape and its dramatic acceleration of the accompanying and mounting business risk. Industry professionals must educate themselves in order to defend against the predictable volatility and should do in order to armor your enterprise against these future threats.

At this session, Joe, will help you to understand the many aspects of these changes, recognize your warning signs, and identify your key areas in which you need to concentrate on.

It might be too early to tell if that is "the perfect storm" on your horizon.  But being forewarned is being forearmed. ('praemonitus, praemunitus' )

BIO: As the Senior Security Architect, for a major Canadian Financial Institution, Joe Bate is responsible for assisting in increasing the security posture of the organization by enhancing the security and privacy embedded in the architecture of the systems, solutions, processes and ensuring the appropriate controls are implemented to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the customer, employee and business information.

Location:  425 Adelaide Street West, Toronto<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=425+Adelaide+Street+West,+Toronto,+Ontario,+Canada&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.037246,92.724609&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=425+Adelaide+St+W,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario,+Canada&z=16&iwloc=A>, Suite 702.
Contact #: 888-777-2211 ext 0 and someone will help let you in if door is closed.
Date/Time: November 10th, 2010, 6:00-7:30 PM EST
Title: Using Open Standards to Break the Vulnerability Wheel of Pain

BIO:  Ed is the Chief Information Security Officer responsible for the protection and security of all information and electronic assets as well as compliance and ethics across the wide array of business units that make up Orbitz Worldwide on a global basis. These assets include Orbitz, CheapTickets, eBookers, Away.com, HotelClub, RatesToGo, AsiaHotels, and Orbitz for Business.

With over 18 years of experience in information security and technology, Ed has worked with and been involved in protecting information assets at several Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Orbitz, Ed served as VP of Corporate Information Security for Bank of America within their Global Corporate and Investment Banking division. His credentials also include several security technology and management roles at organizations such as Ernst & Young, Ford Motor Company, and Young & Rubicam. Ed is a CISSP, CISM, a contributor to the ISM Community, serves on the advisory board to the Society of Payment Security Professionals as well as its Application Security Working Group.

Ed is a frequent speaker at information security events across North America and Europe. Past talks have included venues such as BlackHat, Metricon, CSO, OWASP, The MIS Institute, The Association of Information Technology Professionals, Technology Executives Club, and the National Business Travel Association. Additionally Ed is a contributing author to the O'Reilly book Beautiful Security.

Also please remember SecTor is coming up: we hope to see you there! Don't forget to use your OWASP discount code!

Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you!

Nishchal Bhalla
Founder, Security Compass
http://www.securitycompass.com<http://www.securitycompass.com/>
1.888.777.2211 ext 101 (Main)
732.614.1020 (Mobile)

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