OWASP Australia (Asia Pacific) Security Conference 2008
February 27,28,29th, Gold Coast Australia
Call for papers: Business & Technical Sessions
With the great success in the United States and Europe at the Official
OWASP Application Security Conferences, OWASP
are bringing the conference to the Asia Pacific Rim and Australia in
early 2008. The OWASP conferences are dedicated
exclusively to Application Security Topics, one of the most critical
threats facing any business in today's business environment.
The conference is scheduled for the Wednesday (27th) of February
(Training Day) with the main conference presentations
provided on the 28th and 29th of February.
OWASP is seeking for presentations on Application Security and related
OWASP projects from the community. Over the conference
program there are 8 technical and 8 business presentation sessions
running approximately 1 hour in length each.
Possible Topics include:
- OWASP Project Presentation (i.e Tool Updates/Project Status etc)
- Web Services Security
- Secure Coding Principles & Design
- Designing Secure Applications
- Business Risk from Applications
- Privacy Concerns with Applications and Data Storage
- Baseline or Metrics for Application Security
- Technology Specific Risks (including Ajax, Web 2.0, Flash etc)
As there a limited number of available presentations please email your
proposed presentation ideas to:
jderry@owasp.org
Simply reply to this email with your idea and a short paragraph or two
on what you propose to present on.
Closing date for presentation ideas is the 7th December 2007, with
presentation material not due until the 31st January 2008.
Visit http://www.owasp.org for more information on OWASP and the
Conferences.
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