OWASP Ottawa
Hello Ottawa and the World, Welcome to your OWASP Ottawa Chapter!
Who We Are
We are a place to meet local developers and information security professionals, share ideas, and learn.
You will find us informal, approachable, and thankful for your assistance. We encourage and welcome beginners. We are an open, tolerant, and inclusive organisation that accepts all races, genders, creeds, abilities, things, and ideas with the exception of one - Hate: Hate has no home at OWASP Ottawa.
OWASP Ottawa events are completely free. We will never charge for access to any of our events.
What We Do
We provide a mix of InfoSec talks, hands on training sessions, and special interest discussion groups. We hold monthly meetups at the STEM Building of the University of Ottawa. We hold occassional workshops on a variety of security topics.
We are always looking for new ideas for events so let us know if you have an idea.
You can submit an idea at any point in time at the following link:
OWASP Ottawa Speaker Submission Form 2024.
For updates, events, membership; please visit our meetup page: OWASP Ottawa Meetup
Volunteers
OWASP Ottawa would not function without the generous support of time and effort from our volunteers. If you would like to get more involved we would love to have your help.
Contact us on any of our socials or Slack if you wish to volunteer.
Chapter Supporters
Currently Scheduled Events
Connect with us on Social Media and on Slack
- Register for OWASP Ottawa Slack via this Slack link
- Follow us on Mastodon: @[email protected]
- Follow us on Bluesky: @owaspottawa.bsky.social
- Follow us on LinkedIn: OWASP Ottawa LinkedIN page
Watch our past Talks
Next Meeting/Event(s)
Wednesday May 20th, 2026
Details
Welcome to our in-Person Meetup at the University of Ottawa
In-Person Location: 150 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, University of Ottawa Room 117
We will continue to Live Stream on our YouTube channel. (https://www.youtube.com/@OWASP_Ottawa). Subscribe to our YouTube channel, set a reminder and you’ll get a notification as soon as we go live!
YouTube Live Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXpb7ooZZRg
6:00 PM EST Arrival, setup, mingle, PIZZA!!! 6:30 PM EST Technical Talks
- Introduction to OWASP Ottawa, Public Announcements.
- Building Opportunities Before You Feel Ready (The Ada Sisterhood)” with Kira Evans
- “Shai-Hulud: Anatomy of a Self-Replicating Worm (A Beginner’s Walkthrough of Modern Malware Analysis)” with Jainil Malaviya
Abstract:
Building Opportunities Before You Feel Ready (The Ada Sisterhood) with Kira Evans This talk shares the story of how The Ada Sisterhood grew from a small student club into community partnerships, networking events, nonprofit tech projects, and hackathons across Ottawa’s tech community. Kira will speak about the power of volunteering, building connections, and taking action before feeling fully prepared, along with how community involvement opened unexpected doors in tech leadership and event organizing.
Shai-Hulud: Anatomy of a Self-Replicating Worm (A Beginner’s Walkthrough of Modern Malware Analysis) with Jainil Malaviya In September 2025, a self-replicating worm called Shai-Hulud compromised over 500 npm packages, with no humans in the loop. By November, follow-on waves had pushed stolen secrets to more than 25,000 public GitHub repos. This talk walks through how a malware analyst would read it: static analysis, YARA detection, dynamic analysis, and a deep dive into Shai-Hulud’s credential harvesting and self-replication mechanics. If you’ve never opened a malware sample but you’ve always wanted to, this hour is for you.
Speaker:
Kira Evans recently completed the Computer Programming program at Algonquin College and is the founder of The Ada Sisterhood, a student initiative created to help students build confidence, connections, and real-world experience in tech. What started as a small campus club grew into partnerships with nonprofits, networking events, hackathons, and leadership opportunities across the Ottawa tech community. Kira currently serves on the 2026 Board of Directors for JCI Ottawa as Director of External Relations.
Jainil Malaviya is a Security Engineer at Nokia Canada Inc and an April 2026 graduate of Northeastern University. Based in Ottawa, he is OSCP+ certified, serves as the OffSec Canada Chapter Ambassador, and is a member of the Cloud Village team that runs at DEF CON, RSAC, and major BSides events. Attendees
If you are coming into town by car to attend a meetup then you may have questions about parking. Below is a Ottawa University Campus parking map:
Alternatively, you can try your luck on street parking in Sandy Hill or in the Triangle on the other side of the canal (you can cross over using the Corkstown pedestrian bridge).
Even better, use the train as there is a station on campus.
Chapter Supporters
The following are the list of organizations that have generously supported the Ottawa Chapter:
How to Support OWASP Ottawa
Financially
Specifying OWASP Ottawa in your donation helps support OWASP and the Ottawa Chapter to provide quality security education.
- Browse to https://owasp.org/ottawa
- Click the green Donate button to the top right.
- Select an amount.
- Click “Publicly list me as a support of OWASP Ottawa”.
- Enter your details.
- Prove to a robot, that you are not a robot.
- Provide payment information.
Other ways to Support OWASP Ottawa
There are other ways you can support the chapter. These can include:
- SWAG.
- Food or Beverages at events.
- Security content.
Contact us for more details.