[Owasp-winnipeg] Re: [OWASP-Chapters] Tuesday, March 29 Meeting

[Matteo Meucci]

Hi Yvan,
to promote the organization I suggest to you to:
- Write to local mailing list of information security talking about OWASP.
- Write an article to an InfoSec local mag announcing the born of
OWASP-Winnipeg and describing OWASP projects.
- Try to contact local University to conduct a seminar about Web
Application Security and OWASP
- Try to contact local professional association like ISACA, ISSA,
CISSP... to organize a seminar to introduce OWASP. I've been in ISACA
Rome the last week and now I've received other 2 proposals: the 28
April I'll be in ISACA for a second session, the 18th May I'll be in
Milan next to the Computer Crime Club - SecurityNet.
I think there is a lot of interest about OWASP. I've make 80 slides to
illustrate OWASP, but only 16 are in english illustrating a case-study
of a web application vulnerability (you can find that at:
http://www.owasp.org/docroot/owasp/misc/OWASP-Italy-MMS-Spoofing.zip
and use it at the Meeting if you like it).
I hope this help.

Regards,
Mat

OWASP-Italy
http://www.owasp.org/local/italy.html




On Apr 4, 2005 5:06 PM, Yvan Boily <yboily at gmail.com> wrote:
> We held the first official monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 29th.  This
> meeting featured an introductory presentation to OWASP (essentially a
> summary of the first meeting), and the first in a series of
> presentations on Data Validation.
> 
> I am working with other local groups to promote the organization but it
> is somewhat slow going; many of the groups I have presented at are
> management oriented.  They see value in the organization, and the
> understand the role that application security plays, however they are
> not the ideal target market.
> 
> In particular I would like feedback from members on the list on how to
> promote the organization; what would you like to see at the monthly
> meetings to draw you to them?  I am looking for any suggestions to raise
> interest, and assuming they are not too outlandish I will try to
> accomodate them.
> 
> In particular anyone who has the ability to reach a large number of
> people, either through professional associations, or through your
> employer, please contact me to discuss ways to promote the organization.
> 
> I would be more than happy to perform customized presentations, or to
> assist with developing a presentation to help promote OWASP.
> 
> The next monthly meeting is on April 26th, 2005, and the planned
> presentation will be an introduction to WebGoat.
> 
> Regards,
> Yvan Boily
> 
> 
>