IBWAS'10 Call for Papers

2nd. OWASP Ibero-American Web-Applications Security conference 2010 (IBWAS’10) ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute 25th – 26th November 2010 Lisboa, Portugal http://www.ibwas.com

Call for Papers

Introduction

There is a change in the information systems development paradigm. The emergence of Web 2.0 technologies led to the extensive deployment and use of web-based applications and web services as a way to developed new and flexible information systems. Such systems are easy to develop, deploy and maintain and demonstrate impressive features for users, resulting in their current wide use.

As a result of this paradigm shift, the security requirements have also changed. These web-based information systems have different security requirements, when compared to traditional systems. Important security issues have been found and privacy concerns have also been raised recently. In addition, the emerging Cloud Computing paradigm promises even greater flexibility; however corresponding security and privacy issues still need to be examined. The security environment should involve not only the surrounding environment but also the application core.

This conference aims to bring together application security experts, researchers, educators and practitioners from the industry, academia and international communities such as OWASP, in order to discuss open problems and new solutions in application security. In the context of this track academic researchers will be able to combine interesting results with the experience of practitioners and software engineers.

Conference Topics

Suggested topics for papers submission include (but are not limited to):

• Secure application development
• Security of service oriented architectures
• Security of development frameworks
• Threat modelling of web applications
• Cloud computing security
• Web applications vulnerabilities and analysis (code review, pen-test, static analysis etc.)
• Metrics for application security
• Countermeasures for web application vulnerabilities
• Secure coding techniques
• Platform or language security features that help secure web applications
• Secure database usage in web applications • Access control in web applications
• Web services security
• Browser security
• Privacy in web applications
• Standards, certifications and security evaluation criteria for web applications • Application security awareness and education
• Security for the mobile web
• Attacks and Vulnerability Exploitation

Global Summit 2011 Venue Proposal

OWASP Leaders,

We are looking for a venue for the Global Summit to be scheduled for four days sometime between January 15th, 2011 and February 15th, 2011. The Global Summit committee is requesting proposals from OWASP Leaders for venues. We will need your proposal by the October 4th. Proposal can be in rough draft format with estimated pricing, we just need to know who is interested in helping to put together the Global Summit to be held this coming January/or February and rough estimates of pricing for a particular location.

We are also looking for more volunteers to help with planning for the event so please respond if interested.

Venue Requirements:
Key organizer in close contact with venue.

Hosting:
30- 100 people

Cost:
$2000 USD/ per person to include facility, lodging, food, beer and transport to and from location. (This should be an all-inclusive cost per person, with the assumption that OWASP members will room together 2-4 depending on number of beds in room/apartment)

Duration:
4 days

Dates:
Will be scheduled between Jan 15th and Feb 15th

Facility requirements:
3-6 meeting rooms
1 large meeting room to hold all attendees (estimate for 75-100) e.g. auditorium.
Lodging should be part of conference facilities or within walking distance of venue.

Internet - what is bandwidth available?
Must be sufficient for a group used to high bandwidth.

Rooms:
To be shared by attendees - need to understand how many attendees to a room/suite/apartment. Apartments preferred. 4-5 star hotel acceptable.

Food:
Local Food supplier which has been pre-negotiated with hotel.

Airport:
Venue must be within 50 km's max from International airport.

We'd love to bring the OWASP Summit to your city so please consider putting together a proposal.

Thanks
OWASP Global Summit 2011 Planning Committee
martin.Knobloch@owasp.org