Summer is a HOT time for OWASP! Check out these active CFPs:
OWASP Cyber Security Conference in Morocco
The first OWASP regional conference in Africa, this two day conference in No includes a day of training and will take place in Marrakesh. Submissions are due by September 17th.
They encourage and prioritize submissions covering research and new work impacting:
Secure Engineering: secure coding, static analysis, intelligent application threat modelling with real use case, web frameworks security, countermeasures, SDLC, DevOps, etc.
Cognitive Security (Machine Learning and Big Data applied to find cyber security threats with high accuracy precision)
Mobile security: Development and/or testing devices and the mobile web
Cloud security: Offensive and defensive considerations for cloud-based web applications
Infrastructure security: Database security, VoIP, hardware, identity management
Penetration testing: Methodologies, tools, exploit development, evasion techniques, OSINT, etc.
Emerging web technologies and associated security considerations
Applied Cryptography: Relevant research, new models, algorithm usage, interesting attacks, and other applications.
Incident response: Threat detection, triage, malware analysis, forensics, rootkit detection
OWASP tools and projects in practice
Policy and legal: Legislation, privacy, regulations and compliance, C-level considerations, etc.
Cool hacks and other fun stuff: cryptography, social engineering, etc.
To submit a proposal, please submit an abstract of your intended presentation (500 to 4000 characters), a brief biography (150 to 800 characters), a head shot, and a signed copy of the speaker agreement. Talks without all required information may not be considered. Your planned presentation time is limited to a maximum of 15 minutes (excluding ~5 minutes for discussion and change of speaker). Feel free to attach a preliminary version of your presentation if available. Any proposal submitted is subject to a democratic vote by the program committee. Keep in mind: The better your description of the talk, the better picture the program committee will have to review your submission. Please proofread your submission; after approval your abstract, biography, and head shot will be published verbatim into the program and website.
OWASP Bucharest AppSec Conference 2016
This annual one day security and hacking conference is FREE. It takes place on October 6th at the Sheridan Bucharest hotel. You can register and submit your presentation here.
Their audience includes:
Application Developers
Application Testers and Quality Assurance
Application Project Management and Staff
Chief Information Officers, Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Technology Officers, Deputies, Associates and Staff
Chief Financial Officers, Auditors, and Staff Responsible for IT Security Oversight and Compliance
Security Managers and Staff
Executives, Managers, and Staff Responsible for IT Security Governance
IT Professionals interested in improving IT Security
Anyone interested in learning about or promoting Web Application Security
Rugged DevOps
The CFP for Rugged DevOps closed on the 18th, but their presentations will be hosted as part of AppSecUSA 2016 in Washington DC. If you are a security practitioner interested in working with DevOps automation concepts and methodologies as part of the software development lifecycle this event is for you! Washington DC, October 11 - 14
ARMSec
OWASP Armenia is hosting their annual conference September 16- 17th in Yerevan at the American University of Armenia. You can apply to their CFP here they are accepting talks from 20 min to 1 hour as well as 2 or 4 hour trainings.
BeNeLux OWASP Day
The annual event will host trainings on the 24th, and the conference on the 25th of November in Leuven, Belgium. Submissions close September 11th and can be made here. Topics should focus on the technical and social aspects of security, they will encourage and prioritize submissions covering research and new work impacting:
Secure development of web applications.
Security testing of web applications.
Security of DevOps processes, architectures, and tools.
Security of applications designed for mobile devices.
Security of Internet of Things devices and platforms.
Cloud platform security
Browser security
HTML5 security
OWASP tools or projects in practice
To submit a proposal, please submit an abstract of your intended presentation (500 to 4000 characters), a brief biography (150 to 800 characters) and a head shot (combine multiple files in one zip file). Your planned presentation time is 40 minutes (excluding ~5 minutes for discussion and change of speaker). Feel free to attach a preliminary version of your presentation if available. Any proposal submitted is subject to a democratic vote by the program committee. Keep in mind: The better your description of the talk, the better picture the program committee will have to review your submission.
ASC Mobile & IoT Security Summit 2016
The OWASP China Chapter is co-hosting the ASC Mobile & IoT Security Summit 2016 October 25th-26th, 2016 in Shenzhen, China. Submissions close Aug. 31st. The event will have three focus areas:
Part One-- Mobile & IoT Security Forum
Mobile device & Mobile connectivity platform Security Technology
Mobile, Web and Cloud Security
Application Security Testing and Latest Attacks and Protection
Privacy Protection in web based apps
Chip Security
Part Two-- Incident Response Sub Forum
Incident Response Tools and Procedures
Data Protection
Vulnerabilities Handing Solutions
Incident Response System Building
Automatic Security Operation
Part Three—S-SDLC Sub Forum
S-SDLC processes, architectures, and tools
Security assessment in S-SDLC (Code review, penetration testing, etc.)
Security development processes
S-SDLC in Agile Development
Events Looking for OWASP Presentations:
HackFest∞
OWASP Quebec and OWASP Montreal will be hosting a booth at the annual HackFest∞ November 1st through 5th. They are looking for a speaker to talk about OWASP. You can apply to HackFest∞ here.
Rochester Security Summit
A general InfoSec conference taking place October 5th and 6th. RSS features a keynote by Jeremiah Grossman and a dedicated OWASP Track. They are looking for great OWASP AppSec presentations The CFP has been extended, you can follow up here.
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