AppSec USA 2012: Training Promotions, Deadlines, WASPY Awards, and Open Source Showcase

OWASP Community Members -

A few updates and reminders on our upcoming global event: AppSec USA 2012 taking place on October 23-26 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Austin, Texas!

IN THIS MESSAGE: 

Training Promotions |  Reserve your hotel room by October 1 | Register by Sept. 30 |  Conference Schedule | Waspy Awards | Open Source Showcase | Thanks to our Sponsors

TRAINING PROMOTIONS

Win a free pass to Sherif Koussa's Training: Writing Secure J2EE Code

Winner must solve a Java riddle plus get the most amount of retweets, LI comments and likes or Facebook likes. 

For details go to: http://www.slideshare.net/skoussa/how-good-of-a-java-developer-are-you

Several of our trainers have decided to offer a "3 for 2" deal on their training course.  If your company wants to send 3 people to a training course - you can do it for the price of 2 training registrations.  Put it another way - buy 2 training registrations, get a third for free!   If you are interested in taking advantage of this promotion email sarah.baso@owasp.org for registration instructions and a discount code.  Training classes included in this offer:

• 1 Day Training (Wed, Oct 24) Web Application Secure Defensive Coding Bootcamp (Jim Manico and Eoin Keary)
• 1 Day Training (Wed, Oct 24) CISO Training: Managing Web & Application Security – OWASP for Senior Managers (Tobias Gondrom)
• 1 Day Training (Wed, Oct 24) The Art of Exploiting SQL Injection (Sumit Siddharth)
• 2 Day Training (Tues& Wed, Oct 23-24) .NET Secure Coding (Erez Metula)
• 2 Day Training (Tues& Wed, Oct 23-24) Tactical Defense with ModSecurity (Josh Amishav-Zlatin)

To learn more about all of our training courses, visit: http://www.appsecusa.org/schedule/trainings/

DEADLINE: RESERVE YOUR HOTEL ROOM BY OCTOBER 1

The Hyatt has extended the cut-off date for our room block at the discounted rate of $189/night to OCTOBER 1.  Dont get stuck cabbing it every day, get your hotel room today. Book at the Hyatt Regency Austin under our discounted rate > https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=6604435

REGISTER BY SEPTEMBER 30th

Registration prices go up by $100 after September 30th, So sign up today for a great deal:  http://www.appsecusa.org/register/

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

We have released the schedule (still subject to change) at schedule.appsecusa.org and the mobile version at m.appsecusa.org.  You can create your own personal schedule, connect with other attendees and even import your schedule into Outlook or iCal.

Web Application Security of the Year (WASPY) Award 

Every year a group of individuals including researchers, developers, security professionals and others work to ensure the security of web applications. Some of these individuals are featured in news stories or at conferences as recognized experts. But there are many other ‘unsung heroes’ that work every day to improve web application security and yet are rarely recognized. This year OWASP will initiate the first annual Web Application Security Person of the Year  (WASPY) award. The WASPY awards are solely funded by sponsors.

We would like to thank our Platinum Sponsor Qualys and our Silver Sponsor Trustwave for their additional contributions to this award.  

It's not too late to sponsor the WASPY awards.   Please contact Kelly Santalucia kelly.santalucia@owasp.org for more information or with any questions you may have.

OPEN SOURCE SHOWCASE

Don't miss the OWASP Open Source Showcase starting on Thursday, October 25th and ending on Friday, October 26th! A handful of open source projects were selected to showcase, demo, and promote their work at the AppSec USA conference this year. 

 The projects showcasing are: 

• OWASP Hackademic Challenges
• Armitage
• ThreadFix
• Brakeman
• ModSecurity
• Mantra OS

The Open Source Showcase is a great opportunity to participate in live demos, and meet the Project Leaders face to face. The showcases run from 9:00am to Noon, and from 2pm to 5pm on both Thursday and Friday. Please contact projects@owasp.org for more information. 

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS!

We are EXTREMELY thankful to our donors and sponsors:

Adobe, NTOBJECTives, Aspect Security, Checkmarx, iMPERVA, Cigital, Qualys, NetSPI, Veracode, IBM, f5, WhiteHat, Army INSCOM, Trustwave Spiderlabs, Impact Security, Denim Group, Gemalto, Gotham Digital Science, Symplified, Blueinfy, Core Security Technologies, Radware, RSA Security, Rapid7, Falling Rock, and Pwnie Express.

THANK YOU! We couldn't pull this off without your generous support!



OWASP AppSec USA 2012, Austin TX
Training: October 23-24,

Talks, CTF, Showroom, & More: October 25-25
www.appsecusa.org
@appsecusa