OWASP Bay Area will host its next Application Security Summit at the Fujitsu Offices in Sunnyvale on February 25th. As usual attendance is free and food and beverages will be provided. This will be an awesome event and a great opportunity to network with industry peers. The event is open to the public; please forward this invite to your colleagues and friends who are interested in computer and application security.

We have an excellent line-up of speakers.

Please note that due to security issues, your must pre-register. The registration will ask you for citizenship/permanent residence status as well. Badges will be ready for the registered attendees at the lobby where you will check in.

WHAT: OWASP Bay Area Chapter - Application Security Summit
WHEN: Thursday, February 25th, 2010 - From 1 P.M. to 8.00 P.M. (including a reception from 6.00 to 8.00)
WHERE: Fujitsu Offices, Sunnyvale - See below for directions

Agenda:

1:00 PM - 1:15 PM ... Check-in, registration, networking
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM ... Welcome Remarks and Overview of OWASP Bay Area - Mandeep Khera, Bay Area Chapter Leader
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM ... Keynote - Vishal Sikka, CTO, SAP
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM ... WebBlaze: New Techniques and Tools for Web Security - Dawn Song, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM ... Networking Break, refreshments
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM ... State of the Art: Automated Black-Box Web app testing- Prof. John Mitchell, Stanford University and Jason Bau, PH.D. Student, Stanford
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM ... Controlling Data in the Cloud: Outsourcing Computation without Outsourcing Control - Richard Chow, PARC
4:30 - 4.45 PM ... Mini Break
4:45 - 6.00 PM ... Panel - App Security issues - Cloud Security, Inertia with App Security, Future of App Security - Q&A from the audience - Panelists: Prof. Dawn Song; Richard Chow; Prof. John Mitchell, Lars Ewe, CTO, Cenzic; Moderator: Mandeep Khera
6.00 PM - 8.00 PM ... Networking Reception - Dinner and Drinks!

Venue and Directions:

Fujitsu Sunnyvale Campus (Building H)
1250 E. Arques Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085

Please note that you will be asked to sign and write down your country of citizenship in order to comply with US Customs regulations and C/TPAT (Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) certifications. As part of the compliance, we regrettably are not able to allow attendance to those who hold the citizenship of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria without a US Green Card. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Directions:

From:San Jose, Morgan Hill

FROM HWY 101 SOUTH:
• Take 101 North to Lawrence Expy..
• Exit Lawrence Expy and go south (tum left).
• Take a left on Arques
• Fujitsu Silicon Valley Campus is located on the right side after the fitst stoplight

From: Palo Alto, San Francisco

FROM HWY 101 NORTH:
• Take 101 South to Lawrence Expy
• Exit Lawrence Expy and go south (tum right).
• Take a left on Arques.
• Fujitsu Silicon Valley Campus is located on the light side after the first stop light

From: Milpitas

FROM HWY 237 EAST:
• Take 237 West to Lawrence Expy
• Exit Lawrence Expy/Caribbean Dr exit and head straight to exit on Lawrence Expy
• Take a left on Arques ..
• Fujitsu Silicon Valley Campus is located on the right hand side after the first stoplight

From: Mountain View

FROM HWY 237 WEST:
• Take 237 East to Lawrence Expy
• Exit Lawrence Expy and go south (tum tight).
• Take a left on Arques 
• Fujitsu Silicon Valley Campus is located on the right  after first stoplight

Detailed Abstracts and Speaker Bios

Keynote:

Bio – Vishal Sikka, CTO, SAP
Vishal Sikka is chief technology officer (CTO), and member of the Executive Board of SAP AG.  Sikka’s responsibilities include defining the company’s technology and architecture strategy and product standards across the entire SAP product portfolio; driving innovation, user-experience, and design; introducing emerging technologies; and leading advanced development of  the SAP next-generation technology platform, applications, and tools. Sikka also oversees key technology partnerships, customer co-innovation, and incubation of emerging businesses. He has global responsibility for the SAP Research organization and academic and government relations, and is an executive sponsor of the SAP Labs network.  

Prior to being appointed the first CTO of SAP, Sikka was the chief software architect at SAP, responsible for the SAP technology and architecture road map, before which he was responsible for the advanced technology group.

Before joining SAP, Sikka was area vice president for platform technologies at Peregrine Systems, where he was responsible for developing Peregrine’s (Remedy Corp) application platform, including development tools and lifecycle management.  Sikka joined Peregrine following the acquisition of his startup Bodha, Inc., where he served as founder and CEO.

Sikka holds a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University in California, and his experience includes research in automatic programming, information and application integration, and artificial intelligence at Stanford, at Xerox Palo Alto Labs, and at two startup companies.

WebBlaze: New Techniques and Tools for Web Security
I will present the WebBlaze project, aiming at designing and developing new techniques and tools to improve web security. WebBlaze's new technologies cover a broad range including new architectural solutions for defending against cross-site scripting attacks, tools for detecting and defending against cross-origin JavaScript capability leaks which lead to universal cross-site scripting attacks, and new approaches for secure  browser extensions and web advertisements.

In this talk, I will focus on two sample techniques in WebBlaze: (1) dynamic analysis and symbolic reasoning of JavaScript to detect client-side input validation vulnerabilities; (2) program binary analysis to extract security-related models from browsers to detect new classes of vulnerabilities such as content-sniffing vulnerabilities. Our techniques and tools have discovered previously unknown vulnerabilities in browsers and popular web applications. Some of the solutions in WebBlaze have been adopted by mainstream browsers and industry standards and deployed on millions of machines.

Bio – Prof. Dawn Song
Dawn Song is an Associate Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley. She obtained her B.S. in Physics from Tsinghua University in China in 1996, her M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999, and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2002. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, she was an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2007.

Her research interest lies in security and privacy issues in computer systems and networks, including areas ranging from software security, networking security, database security, distributed systems security, to applied cryptography.  She is the recipient of various awards including the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship Award, the IBM Faculty Award, the George Tallman Ladd Research Award, the Okawa Foundation Research Award, and the Li Ka Shing Foundation

Women in Science Distinguished Lecture Series Award. She is also the author of multiple award papers in top security conferences, including the Best Paper Award at the USENIX Security Symposium and the Highest Ranked Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.  Recently she was awarded the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, recognizing her as one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35.

State of the Art: Automated Black-Box Web app testing

Black-box web application vulnerability scanners are automated tools that probe web applications for security vulnerabilities. In order to assess the current state of the art, we obtained access to eight leading tools and carried out a study of: (i) the class of vulnerabilities tested by these scanners, (ii) their effectiveness against target vulnerabilities, and (iii) the relevance of the target vulnerabilities to vulnerabilities found in the wild. To conduct our study we used a custom web application vulnerable to known and projected vulnerabilities, and previous versions of widely used web applications containing known vulnerabilities. Our results show the promise and effectiveness of automated tools, as a group, and also some limitations. In particular, “stored” forms of Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection (SQLI) vulnerabilities are not currently found by many tools. Because our goal is to assess the potential of future research, not to evaluate specific vendors, we will not report comparative data or make any recommendations about purchase of specific tools.

Bio – Prof. John Mitchell
John Mitchell is the Mary and Gordon Crary Family Professor in the Stanford Computer Science Department. His research in computer security focuses on web security, network security, privacy, and distributed authorization management. He has also worked on programming language analysis and design, formal methods, and applications of mathematical logic to computer science. Prof. Mitchell currently leads research projects funded by the US Air Force, the Office of Naval Research, private companies and foundations, and he is the Stanford Principal Investigator of the multidisciplinary TRUST NSF Science and Technology Center. He is a consultant and advisor to a number of companies and is the author of over 140 research articles and two books.

Controlling Data in the Cloud: Outsourcing Computation without Outsourcing Control
Cloud computing is clearly one of today's most enticing technology areas. However, despite the surge in activity and interest, there are significant, persistent concerns about cloud computing that are impeding momentum and will eventually compromise the vision of cloud computing as a new IT procurement model. In this survey talk, we characterize the problems and their impact on adoption. In addition, we describe some existing research thrusts with the potential to alleviate some of the concerns impeding adoption.

Bio – Richard Chow
Richard Chow works in the security and privacy group at the Palo Alto Research Center. Richard is interested in systems security, fraud detection, and privacy. Some of his achievements include architecting Yahoo!'s click-fraud protection system and the security and DRM components for Motorola's first Java-based phone platform. He has played a lead role at three startups and was also a founder of Trusted Systems Laboratories, which brought high-assurance security systems to the commercial market. Richard received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from UCLA.