OWASP Manchester

Welcome

Welcome to the official page of OWASP Manchester. We’ll be running multiple events throughout the year so join our Meetup page to stay informed!

If you wish to talk at or sponsor a future event please feel free to reach out on Twitter, Meetup, or email one of the chapter leaders from the sidebar.

Participation

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) is a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the security of software. All of our projects, tools, documents, forums, and chapters are free and open to anyone interested in improving application security.

Chapters are led by local leaders in accordance with the Chapters Policy. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online donation button.

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate in our Projects, Local Chapters, Events, Online Groups, and Community Slack Channel. We especially encourage diversity in all our initiatives. OWASP is a fantastic place to learn about application security, to network, and even to build your reputation as an expert. We also encourage you to be become a member or consider a donation to support our ongoing work.

Next Meeting/Event

Code of Conduct

OWASP Manchester meetings and events are an inclusive environment where all people should feel safe and respected. We welcome diversity in age, race, ethnicity, national origin, range of abilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, financial means, education, and political perspective.

OWASP Manchester will not tolerate any form of violence, harassment, hate speech or trolling either off or online, or any overly drunken, intimidating or heckling behaviour.

Please respect the presenters, don’t talk amongst yourselves during their presentations and ensure your mobile phones are muted or switched off.

We want you to have fun, in a safe and respectful environment.

If you have any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct please contact one or the Chapter Leads either in person, though the Meetup page or via email.

Chapter Leaders:

As this is a private event we withhold the right to remove and ultimately ban anyone who violates this code of conduct and will report any incidents to the appropriate authorities if necessary.

Polite note to Vendors/Recruiters/Internal Recruiters/Business Development people

Vendors and Recruiters are welcome at OWASP Manchester, however we ask that you remember this is a user group, not a networking event, and tapping people up for jobs or business unprompted is not encouraged.

2023

Proactive Security - How do you prevent vulnerabilities? - 7th March 2023

Details

In this session we'll be discussing Proactive Security. Meaning, how do you empower and enable engineering teams to own their own security to prevent the release of vulnerable code... What would secure coding practices look like, what is security by design, what security testing can teams do during the test & release process. More importantly, what can we put in place to really make the security teams work for their money.

Talks

Threat Modelling - Robin Fewster

Drawing on some client experiences, Robin will discuss different threat modelling approaches and tools available, and how they went down with development teams.

About Robin Fewster
Robin has 20 years experience in cyber security, and is particularly interested in helping companies to improve their security posture. A current area of focus is to assist software development teams with improving their secure software development practices. This includes work ranging from implementing security strategy, security champions programmes and threat modeling. Robin is also a former OWASP Newcastle chapter leader.

SAST, DAST, IAST, RASP - Daniel Oates-Lee

Daniel will give us an introduction to DevSecOps and share their experience enabling secure development for clients.

About Daniel Oates-Lee
Daniel is one of the Punk Security Co-Founders and has over 21 years of commercial IT experience, with 15 years focused on cyber security.

Sponsors

We'd like to say THANK YOU to the companies who helped make this event possible:
Barclays DiSH - Thank you so much for sponsoring the venue.
BeyondTrust - Thank you so much for sponsoring the food & drink.
Cytix - Special thanks for making introductions.

Recordings

Coming Soon!
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