West Coast's Premier Application Security Conference Offers Hard-Hitting Extracurricular Activities

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January 21, 2016

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West Coast’s Premier Application Security Conference Offers Hard-Hitting Extracurricular Activities

Training, Keynotes, Sessions, and Added Entertainment Are Driving This Sell-out Event

Los Angeles, CA – Featuring a full day of training followed by two days of talks, the Third Annual AppSec California, scheduled to take place January 25 – 27, 2016 in Santa Monica, CA at the Annenberg Beach House, is also host to a number of extracurricular physical and mental endurance activities you surely won’t want to miss. Registration at the event begins at 7:45am on Monday for training and Tuesday for the main conference.

AppSec California attendees can join each other for these fun-filled, yet informative, social events:

• Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) Smackdown
• Riot Security Games Meetup
• Capture the Flag (CTF)
• OWASP 2016 Projects Review Webinar

For whatever reason, there is a high proportion of InfoSec folks who train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. The BJJ Smackdown is a chance for us to do what we love best – training jiu-jitsu – with our friends and peers in the industry. For the second year in a row, OWASP AppSec California will offer its own Smackdown. Are you ready?

Also not to be missed, AppSec California will have two security talks from David Rook of Riot Games and two of his Riot colleagues. These talks will provide useful insight into how they approach application security at Riot. They will talk about application security culture, Riot application security data and some custom tools they’ve developed to help their engineers to produce secure code. Don’t worry…it wouldn’t be a Riot Games event if it didn’t involve playing some games! The event will start at 6:30pm and finish around 11pm. If you’d like to stay around to play games with other Rioters in their state-of-the-art PC Bang and Arcade, be sure you sign up to attend the AppSec California event so you can get the full details. Let the games begin!

For those that want a different mental challenge, we are absolutely thrilled to announce that OWASP San Diego will be hosting an amazing AppSec California Capture the Flag (CTF) hacking competition for the second year in a row! No pre-registration is necessary! Sign up on-site, get plugged in, and get started. If this is your first CTF ever, you will be able to find things if you try. If this isn’t your first rodeo, we have challenges for you too. Who will come out on top?

Finally, for those that want to participate beyond the conference, we have an OWASP-sponsored webinar, moderated by Tom Brennan and scheduled for the final hours of the event on Wednesday. This session, open to all attendees, is a call to OWASP Project Leaders to get together to discuss OWASP Projects in 2016, including the following topics:

• Open-Source Legal Considerations for OWASP Project Leaders
• Current Workflow (End-To-End / Lab – Flagship)
• Discuss Identified Areas of Improvement
• Establishing Regional Representation
• Asia-Pacific Security Council (APSC)
• North America Security Council (NASC)
• Europe Middle East and Africa Security Council (ESC)
• Latin America Security Council (LASC)
• Sprints, Sabbaticals & Summit

Even if you can’t attend AppSec California, you can still register for the online webinar here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7141369075633328641

From the opening keynote by Marcus Ranum, Chief Security Officer, Tenable Network Security, to Wednesdays keynote by Jeremiah Grossman, Founder, WhiteHat Security – and all of the extra stuff designed to keep us kicking our heels well into each evening – this high impact card promises to pack a serious heavyweight punch.

Don’t forget to check out the Full list of speakers at: https://2016.appseccalifornia.org/#speakers

For additional details regarding the keynotes, sessions, trainings, and more, the full conference agenda can be viewed at: https://2016.appseccalifornia.org/#agenda.

AppSec California attracts a worldwide audience from many walks of business life. Executives from firms along with technical thought leaders such as security architects and lead developers will be traveling to hear the cutting-edge ideas presented by Information Security’s top talent. Past conferences have drawn technologists from Government, Financial Services, Media, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Technology, and many other verticals.

To attend this year’s OWASP AppSec California and participate in some of these hard-hitting events, visit https://2016.appseccalifornia.org/#register to book your tickets today.

Of course, don’t forget about the training. These full-day sessions are nearly sold out:

• Secure Coding Bootcamp for the Web by Jim Manico, founder of Manicode Security
• Web Pentesting Using OWASP Tools by Aaron Guzman, Principal Penetration Testing Consultant, Dell SecureWorks
• Attack Techniques and Hands-On CTF by Mick Ayzenberg, Security Engineer, Security Innovation
• OWASP Top 10 – Exploitation and Effective Safeguards by David Caissy, Security consultant, Albero Solutions Inc.

Our team looks forward to seeing you in Santa Monica in a few days!

About OWASP: The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a not-for-profit, worldwide organization focused on improving the security of application software. OWASP’s mission is to make application security visible to ensure that organizations and individuals can make informed decisions about true application security risks. Participation in OWASP is free of charge and open to the general public. All OWASP materials are available under a free and open software license. www.owasp.org

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