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Upcoming Events

Austin Security Professionals Happy Hour, March 12, 2026, Sponsored by Snyk

When: Thursday, March 12th, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Where: Lavaca Street Bar at the Domain Northside (Rock Rose District), 11420 Rock Rose Ave #100, Austin, TX 78758.

What: The Austin Security Professionals Happy Hour is a monthly event coordinated by the Austin OWASP Chapter and sponsored by various companies. We try to meet every second Thursday of the month from January to September (but occasionally we make schedule adjustments when needed). The event is an informal social gathering of local information security professionals. If you’re involved with InfoSec or even if you have an interest, come on out for drinks, good food and conversation.

Sponsor: Snyk

Snyk's developer-first application security platform empowers dev and security teams to find and fix vulnerabilities fast across their rapidly modernizing tech stack- from code to application delivery - and ensures agencies have the context and visibility to mitigate application downtime and malicious attacks. Snyk's security guardrails and comprehensive coverage allow development teams to adopt next-gen technology like AI, delivering high-quality citizen services while remaining protected from rising cybersecurity attacks. Snyk stays on the cutting edge of application security, arming your developers and security teams to keep your entire application secure from the start so you can focus on what matters most.

Please RSVP so we can plan for number of attendees: Eventbrite

OWASP Austin Chapter Meeting March 2026

When: Tuesday, March 31, 2026 @ 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Agenda:
11:30-11:55 – Room Opens, food is available and in-room discussions
11:55-12:05 – Chapter/OWASP info presentation
12:05-1 – Speakers Presentation

Presentation: Zero Trust in DevOps
Applying zero trust principles and tactics to your critical DevOps process to ensure integrity and safe guard your deployment and development environments. In this session we examine the common protect surfaces in modern software development ecosystem and how remove implicit trust those pose risks to product and operations

Speaker: Evan Borysko
Evan Borysko is a cybersecurity and software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling security, privacy, and DevSecOps programs across startups and global SaaS enterprises including Amazon, Oracle NetSuite, Workrise, and Validere. He specializes in applying Zero Trust and secure-by-design practices to cloud-native platforms and CI/CD pipelines, integrating security automation, identity governance, and continuous compliance into modern DevOps workflows. Evan has been a speaker at IBM industry conferences, a contributor to IBM Redbooks, and a technical reviewer of the AWS Architect study guide. Evan holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Studies from the Florida State University and holds CISM, CISSP, CSSLP, and CCSP. As the founder of Greenbelt Advisors, Evan now advises startups, nonprofits, and scaling SaaS companies on Zero Trust strategy, DevSecOps, and security architecture, helping leaders protect and build in security without slowing innovation.

RSVP:
In-person (and free lunch) at Eventbrite
Online RSVP at Meetup

LASCON 2026

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Austin Security Professionals Happy Hour - 2026 Dates Available

Interested in Sponsoring? We are currently seeking happy hour sponsors for our monthly event. Please contact Tiana Chandler if you are interested. See our Sponsorship page for information on sponsoring.

Chapter Supporters

The following are the list of OWASP Corporate Members who have generously aligned themselves with the Austin chapter, therefore contributing funds to our chapter: