[Event] OWASP New Zealand Day 2012 (Free Conference) - Registration Required
Location: The University of Auckland Business School
Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland
Date: Friday 31st August 2012
Registration Closing Date: 20th August 2012 (places are limited though so don't leave it too late)
Time: TBC
Details
Today we are proud to announce the fourth annual OWASP New Zealand Day
conference, to be held at the University of Auckland on Friday August
31st, 2012. OWASP New Zealand Day is a one-day conference dedicated to
web application security, with an emphasis on secure development
techniques to help Kiwi developers build more secure applications.
Based on feedback from last year, the structure of the conference will
be slightly different this time.
* We will be offering training on the day before the conference
(Thursday August 30th) rather than at the same time as the conference.
* After lunch on the conference day, we will split to two tracks - one
focused on deep technical topics, the other on policy, compliance and
risk management.
The Call For Papers, Trainers and Sponsors is now open, the details of
which can be found below - as well as details for registration!
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REGISTRATION AND VENUE
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As with last year, registration will be performed through the
RegOnline system. Registrations will be limited to 300 people, so
please register using the following link soon to reserve your spot!
https://www.regonline.com/owaspnzday2012
The University of Auckland Business School have kindly offered us the
use of their facilities for the conference. The address of the
building has not changed:
The University of Auckland Business School
Owen G Glenn Building
Address: 12 Grafton Road
Auckland
New Zealand
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IMPORTANT DATES
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CFP & CFT closes: 15th July 2012
Conference Agenda due: 30th July 2012
Conference Registration deadline: 20th August 2012
Training Registration deadline: 20th August 2012
Training Day date: 30th August 2012
Conference Day date: 31st August 2012
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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OWASP New Zealand Day conferences attract a high quality of speakers
from a variety of security discliplines including web developers,
system administrators, penetration testers, policy specialists and
more. There tends to be a bias towards talks aimed at developers in an
effort to provide as much assistance to Kiwi development houses,
however this year the conference will consist of three tracks covering
both technical and risk management topics. We are looking for
presentations on a wide variety of web application security topics,
including but not limited to:
* OWASP Project Presentation (i.e Tool Updates/Project Status etc)
* Threat modelling of web applications
* Privacy Concerns with Applications and Data Storage
* Vulnerability analysis of web applications (code review, pentest,
static analysis, scanning)
* Baseline or Metrics for Application Security
* Countermeasures for web application vulnerabilities - secure coding practices
* Web application security
* Platform or language (e.g. Java, .NET) security features that help
secure web applications
* Secure application development
* How to use databases securely in web applications
* Security of Service Oriented Architectures
* Access control in web applications
* Web services security
* Browser security
* PCI
* Risk management
* Security concepts for C*Os, project managers and other non-technical attendees
The timeline for submissions is as follows:
15th Jul 2012: The official closing date for receiving a synopsis of
the presentation.
31st Jul 2012: Announcements on selected candidates will be provided.
20th Aug 2012: Complete presentations will need to be submitted.
The email subject must be "OWASP New Zealand 2012: CFP" and the email
body must contains the following information/sections:
* Name and Surname
* Affiliation
* Address
* Telephone number
* Email address
* List of the author's previous papers/articles/speeches on the same topic
* Title of the contribution
* Type of contribution: Technical or Informative
* Abstract (up to 500 words)
* Why the contribution is relevant for OWASP New Zealand 2012
* If you are not from New Zealand, will your company support your
travel/accomodation costs - Yes/No
The submission will be reviewed by the OWASP New Zealand Day CFP
Review Board and the highest voted talks will be selected and invited
for presentation.
PLEASE NOTE:
** Due to limited budget available, expenses for international
speakers cannot be covered.
** If your company is willing to cover travel and accomodation costs,
the company will become "Support Sponsor" of the event.
Please submit your presentation topics and an abstract of up to 500
words to Nick Freeman and Adrian Hayes - nick.freeman@owasp.org &
adrian.hayes@owasp.org
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CALL FOR TRAINERS
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We are happy to announce that training will run on Thursday August
30th 2012, the day before the OWASP Day conference. The training
venues will be auditoriums kindly provided by the University of
Auckland, in the same building as the OWASP Day conference itself.
Classes will contain up to 20 students, and each seat has a power
point for laptop usage.
We have secured two auditoriums for the whole day, allowing for 2-4
sessions depending on their duration. Half-day or full-day courses
will be considered.
Examples of training topics:
+ Securing web services
+ Introduction to the OWASP Top 10
+ Hardening web servers
+ Mobile app security
If you are interested in running one of the training sessions, please
contact myself and Adrian Hayes with the following information:
- Trainer name
- Trainer organisation
- Telephone + email contact
- Training title
- Trainer requirements (e.g. a projector)
- Trainee requirements (e.g. laptop, VMWare/Virtualbox etc)
- Training summary (less than 500 words)
- Target audience (e.g. testers, project managers, security managers,
web developers)
- Skill level required (Basic / Intermediate / Advanced)
- A few sentences about why you think this training is important to
web application security
- What attendees can expect to learn (key objectives)
- Short Trainer bio
- List of published papers/presentations
- Course outline E.g.,
1. Topic 1
> Sub Topic 1.a
> Sub Topic 1.b
> Exercise 1
2. Topic 2
3. Topic 3
> Sub Topic 3.a
> Demo
> Sub Topic 3.b
The fixed price per head for training will be $250 for a half-day
session and $500 for a whole-day session. As this training is part of
an OWASP event, part of the proceeds go back to OWASP. The split is as
follows:
- 25% to OWASP Global - used for OWASP projects around the world
- 25% to OWASP NZ Day - used for expenses such as catering during the conference
- 50% to the training provider.
If you have any further queries, or wish to submit a training course,
please send the above information to the following email addresses:
The deadlines and announcements for conference trainers will be the
same as those for conference speakers.
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CALL FOR SPONSORS
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As mentioned above, OWASP New Zealand Day 2012 will be held in
Auckland on the 31st of August, 2012. OWASP New Zealand Day is a
security conference entirely dedicated to web application security.
The conference is once again being hosted by the University of
Auckland with their support and assistance. OWASP New Zealand Day 2012
is a free event, but requires sponsor support to help be an
instructive and quality event for the New Zealand community. OWASP is
strictly non for profit. The sponsorship money will be used to help
make OWASP New Zealand Day 2012 a free, compelling and valuable
experience for the audience.
The sponsorship funds collected are to be used for things such as:
* Refreshments (coffee break/lunch) - we want to keep people refreshed
during the day; while we certainly bring good and interesting
speakers, we don't want people to go home when they become hungry.
* Name tags - we feel that getting to know people within the New
Zealand community is important, and name tags make that possible.
* Promotion - up to now our events are propagating by word of mouth.
We would like to get to a wider audience by advertising our events.
* Printed Materials - printed materials will include brochures, tags
and lanyards.
-- Facts --
Last year, the event was supported by 5 sponsors and attracted more
than 200 participants. Plenty of constructive (and positive!) feedback
from the audience was received and we are using this to make the
conference more appealing to more people. For more information on last
year's event, please visit:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_New_Zealand_Day_2011
The OWASP New Zealand community is strong and there are more than 220
people currently subscribed to the mailing-list. OWASP New Zealand Day
is expected to attract between 200 and 250 attendees this year.
OWASP regular attendees are IT project managers, IT security managers,
IT security consultants, web application architects and developers, QA
managers, QA testers and system administrators.
-- Sponsorships --
There are three different levels of sponsorships for the OWASP Day event:
*** Support Sponsorship (Covering international speaker travel
expenses, media coverage/article/promotion of the event) ***
Includes:
- Publication of the sponsor logo on the event web site -
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_New_Zealand_Day_2012
*** Silver Sponsorship: 1500 NZD ***
Includes:
- Publication of the sponsor logo on the event web site -
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_New_Zealand_Day_2012
- The publication of the sponsor logo in the event site, in the
agenda, on the handouts and in all the official communications with
the attendees at the conference.
- The possibility to distribute the company brochures, CDs or other
materials to the participants during the event.
*** Gold Sponsorship: 2750 or 3500 NZD (see below) ***
Includes:
- The publication of the sponsor logo in the event site, in the
agenda, on the handouts and in all the official communications with
the attendees at the conference.
- The possibility to distribute the company brochures, CDs or other
materials to the participants during the event.
- Publication of the sponsor logo on the OWASP New Zealand Chapter page
- Sponsor logo on the OWASP NZ site prior and during the OWASP Day
event - https://www.owasp.org/index.php/New_Zealand
- Publication of the sponsor logo on the event web site -
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_New_Zealand_Day_2012
- Sponsor dedicated space at the conference (sponsor booth) to show
products/services to the attendees during coffee breaks, lunch and
snack breaks. If a booth is not required, the Gold Sponsorship fee is
2750 NZD instead of 3500 NZD.
For more information about sponsoring OWASP New Zealand Day 2012,
please contact either Nick or Adrian directly or visit the following
page: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_New_Zealand_Day_2012#tab=Call_For_...
For more information about OWASP: https://www.owasp.org/
For more information about the OWASP New Zealand Chapter:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/New_Zealand
For more information regarding the event, please visit:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_New_Zealand_Day_2012
Thanks,
Nick Freeman and Adrian Hayes
OWASP New Zealand Chapter Leaders