OWASP Riyadh

OWASP Riyadh

Welcome to the OWASP Riyadh chapter homepage. OWASP (The Open Web Application Security Project) is a worldwide not-for-profit organisation focused on improving the security of software. With over 200 local Chapters worldwide and 45,000+ volunteers OWASP’s open community is dedicated to enabling organisations and individuals to develop and maintain applications that can be trusted. OWASP’s meet-ups, tools, standards, guidelines, documents and forums are free and open to anyone interested in improving application security. The chapter leaders are Aatif Khan and Rayed Almutiry.
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Upcoming Meetings:

July 2024 Event Details

Date - 29 July 2024
Time - 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Data management and data Governance

Topics covered:
Data management and data governance are two interrelated concepts that are crucial for organizations in today’s data-driven world. Data management is the execution, putting the practices in place to handle data effectively. Data governance sets the direction, outlining the policies and procedures that guide data management activities. In this talk, we will explore in details how data management and data governance plays an important role for any application.

Speaker - Nourhan Ahmed radwan
Nourhan is Senior Data Engineering Consultant. She is the first Arab woman to receive the LinkedIn Top Data Engineering & Data Governance Voice Badges. She has extensive experience as a data engineer and data management consultant. She has successfully led numerous study groups, expanding opportunities for individuals to hone their skills, deepen their understanding of data management, data Modelling and data Governance and chart a path to success in their careers. Nourhan is also a member of DAMA Egypt, where she has strengthened the organization’s position in the data management community.

Past Meetings:

January 2024 Event Details

Date - 9 January 2024
Time - 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Exploiting Windows Architecture

Topics covered:
Windows privilege escalation refers to the process of gaining higher levels of access or control on a Windows system than what is initially granted to a user or application. This is often exploited by attackers or security researchers to elevate their privileges and access sensitive resources or execute privileged operations. Privilege escalation can occur through various vulnerabilities or misconfigurations in the Windows operating system.

Speaker - Yasir Arafat Shaikh
Yasir Arafat Shaikh, CTO and Founder Macksofy Technologies Pvt. Ltd., is a highly decorated cyber security trainer, recognized as the Best Cyber Security Trainer in 2018 and a two-time recipient of the EC-Council Instructor Circle of Excellence Award for the years 2020-2021 and 2021-2022. With extensive experience in training law enforcement agencies, Yasir has successfully trained various batches of the Indian Police and has been invited to speak at numerous national-level conferences on cyber security.

September 2023 Event Details

Date - 14 September 2023
Time - 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Data Privacy and KSA PDPL

Topics covered:

• Introduction to KSA PDPL
• Timelines of KSA PDPL
• Position Prior to PDPL
• What is the scope of Applicability
• Privacy Definitions, Role of Regulatory Authority
• Organizing Data Protection & Internal External compliance
  

Speaker - Bilal Ahmad Fashoo
Bilal is working as Sr. Manager, Cybersecurity, UAE. He has 14 years of experience in IT Security, Cybersecurity , Business continuity , IS Audits , GRC and Privacy. He has helped organization to build cybersecurity , privacy and business continuity program and supported them to keep their information and security hygiene. He holds CISSP,CDPSE, CISM, CRICS, CEH, ISO 27001/27701/22301 LA/LI certifications.

May 2023 Event Details

Date - 24 May 2023
Time - 9:00 PM

Cloudy with a Chance of Penetration: Navigating Security Risks in Cloud Computing?

Target audience:
IT professionals and cybersecurity experts responsible for securing cloud-based systems and data

Objective:
To provide a comprehensive overview of strategies for conducting penetration testing, mitigating cloud computing security risks ,and minimizing the likelihood of cyber attacks and data breaches

Topics covered:

• The current state of cloud computing security
• Common risks and threats inherent in cloud-based systems
• A practical guide to penetration testing in the cloud
• Methods for reducing risk and minimizing the likelihood of data breaches
  

Key takeaways:

• A solid foundation in cloud computing security best practices
• An understanding of the risks and vulnerabilities that must be addressed to achieve secure cloud computing
• Practical strategies for mitigating risk and conducting effective penetration testing
• An overview of the tools and techniques used to secure cloud-based assets
  

Speaker - Mohammed Abrarul Haque
Abrar, is a cybersecurity consultant specializing in cloud security with a focus on compliance regulations applicable to the Saudi Arabian market. He works closely with organizations to help them navigate complex regulatory requirements and safeguard themselves from cyber threats, both in the cloud and on-premise environments.

He helps organizations implement effective cloud security strategies to protect their data, networks, and applications from security breaches and cyberattacks. He conducts comprehensive penetration testing with a focus on cloud security, identifies potential vulnerabilities, and proposes remediation measures. Furthermore, he assists organizations in implementing multi-layered security to ensure their data privacy and availability and maintain regulatory compliance.

To effectively monitor cloud environments, he offers Security Operations Center (SOC) implementation to identify and respond to security issues in real-time. He also provides Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) services to ensure quick and efficient resolution of cyber-security incidents to minimize impact. He is committed to ensuring organizations are secure and compliant with the relevant regulations, which extends to assisting organizations in obtaining ISO 27001 certification, the standard Information Security Management System (ISMS), NCA ECC, and NDMO.

By working closely with organizations, he can help achieve a robust cloud security posture that meets both regulatory requirements and industry best practices.

October 2022 Event Details

Date - 31 Oct 2022
Time - 5:00 PM

How to manage Cybersecurity Incidents

In this 1 hour session we will explore the stages of proper cybersecurity incident management process.

Speaker - Hashem Al-Azizi
Hashem Al-Azizi, A Computer engineer with more than 8 years of experience in the information security domain, providing services ranging from governance, risk and compliance consultation in addition to support and implementation of the national and international cybersecurity standards and frameworks such as ISO 27001,ISO 22301, SAMA, NESA, SACS-002 and NIST.

Hasehm holds many of the recognized cybersecurity certificates such as CGEIT, CISM, CISA, CRISC, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer and Lead Auditor, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer and COBIT 2019 and many others.

Hashem has published two free-courses on Youtube which are COBIT 2019 full training course and ISO 27001 Lead Implementer Course to all community, seeking to increase the Cybersecurity Arabic Content.

September 2022 Event Details

Date - 18th September 2022
Time - 7:00 PM

Top 10 Web Application Security Risks

Open Discussion on Top 10 Web Application Security Risks, Coffee and Snacks.

Open Discussion Description
There are three new categories, four categories with naming and scoping changes, and some consolidation in the Top 10 for 2021. What is the difference between OWASP Top 10 2017 and OWASP Top 10 2021 Web Application Security Risks.

April 2022 Event Details

Date - 22 April 2022
Time - 7:00 PM

OWASP Top 10 API Security

Open Discussion on Top 10 API Security, Coffee and Snacks.

Open Discussion Description
A foundational element of innovation in today’s app-driven world is the API. From banks, retail and transportation to IoT, autonomous vehicles and smart cities, APIs are a critical part of modern mobile, SaaS and web applications and can be found in customer-facing, partner-facing and internal applications. By nature, APIs expose application logic and sensitive data such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and because of this have increasingly become a target for attackers. Without secure APIs, rapid innovation would be impossible.

API Security focuses on strategies and solutions to understand and mitigate the unique vulnerabilities and security risks of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

December 2021 Event Details

Date - 30 Dec 2021
Time - 8:00 PM

What are we missing in Web Applications?

In today’s world, we have a modern and stable web application framework to develop on. That is already so much secured from the attacks, regardless of the OS. If you design the system properly, attacker cannot injection the system. Or attacker cannot attack the website with common attacks like XSS, CSRF, SSRF, SSTI, etc. On the other hand, we have sophisticated scanners which scan the website dynamically with the interactive logins as well, it scans the website along with the internal pages. And we have secure coding practices as well along with the scanners which can scan the source code regardless of the programming language. They are necessary tools while developing a secure application.

But what all these are missing is “Business Logic Flaws”, which are the reason for the highest-paid bounties on Hackerone, bugcrowd, etc. Business Logic Flaws are the attacks, which neither the source-code analysis tool nor dynamic web application scanner can detect.

The presentation/talk will discuss vulnerabilities that can arise from business logic flaws which can affect confidentiality, integrity & availability of customers’ information as well as the product that is connected with the application. We will discuss CVE-2019-2823 - Oracle Financial Services along with other 2FA bypasses in Financial Mobile Applications. Where I was able to do vertical privilege escalation in regards to roles, checker, maker, etc. modules. These were critical findings that were used in financial information systems. On which APTs are attacking day and night.

The majority of the banks use this Oracle service in the world. There are a lot of similar bugs in the world right now as well, in regards to Business Logic Flaws. We have to enhance the testing skills rather than depending on the scanners, manual testing approach to test the use cases will be a good approach.

Briefing Outline:
~ What are current/critical Web Application Flaws?
~ What are Business Logic Flaws (BLF)?
~ Common Vulnerabilities in with BLF.
~ Security Design Flaws.
~ Me against the Odds – Scavenging the application.
~ Bottlenecks, Solution.
~ Pwning the financial application.
~ 2FA bypass with BLF.
~ Test Cases for your application.
~ Closing Remarks / Q&As

Takeaways:
~ Test Business Logic in Web Application.
~ Different methodologies to test against this issue.
~ What to look for in source code to mitigate it.

Speaker - Mirza Burhan Baig
Mirza Burhan Baig is an Information Security Threat Analyst at Riyadh Bank – KSA. Mr. Baig is OSCP Certified professional with over 8 years of experience in Penetration Testing, Threat Hunting & Vulnerability assessments which include Core banking solutions, Banking applications, Network assessment, Mobile penetration testing. Mostly served financial industry.

Mr. Baig is also a certified professional and holds an OSCP, eWPTX, eCPPTv2, eNDP, etc. He is involved in bug bounty programs as well, where he helped many companies to fix vulnerabilities at a different level. Companies include Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, PayPal, Apple, IBM, CISCO, etc. Mr. Baig is also involved in many physical security projects to bypass networks and systems.

Mr. Baig has conducted many seminars and workshops at different levels of corporate, NGOs, Universities, specifically for students to create awareness & guide them to a career path in information security. Some of them include Dubai Electric Water Authority (DEWA), etc.

August 2021 Event Details

Date - 30th August 2021
Time - 7:30 PM

Introduction to SSL/TLS & Their Attacks
The presentation will talk about the history of the SSL/TLS protocols, and the old and new vulnerabilities in the protocols as well as the ciphersuites. Moreover, it will briefly talk about the encryption issues and the applications of the TLS that went bad in the recent years. Finally, the discovery of the issues and the exploitation of some of them will be explained.

Speaker - Rian Saaty

Rian Saaty is a senior cybersecurity consultant focused on penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and Red Teaming. Rian has a M.S. degree in Cybersecurity from Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering. He was previously a lecturer at KAU and an advisor for multiple entities. Furthermore, he holds a number of top-notch industry certificates such as OSEP, OSCE, OSCP, GPEN, CRTE, CRTO, etc.

July 2021 Event Details

Date - 28th July 2021
Time - 8:00 PM

Extending Security to IoTs Using Low-Overhead Public-Key Cryptosystem

Speaker - Dr. Fatemah Alharbi, PhD
A consultant at the Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC). An Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Taibah University, Yanbu. Has a Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of California, Riverside (UCR), which is ranked #17 in security based in CSRankings. Interested in, but not limited to, cybersecurity, cyberattacks, Internet of Things (IoT), applied crypto, system and network measurements and analysis. Has been involved in many research projects that were published in prestigious conferences (e.g., USENIX, CCS, and INFOCOM) and journals (e.g., IEEE TDSC). Received public attention after presenting a cyberattack on the DNS infrastructure targeting Apple macOS, Linux Ubuntu, and Microsoft Windows. Passionate about building systems and tools that will result in long-lasting real-world impact. A strong believer in the power of feedback and teamwork.

June 2021 Event Details

Date - 5th June 2021
Time - 7:00 PM

The Challenges and Opportunities in TLS1.3 Monitoring

Ensuring users’ privacy while protecting your network is becoming a hard tasks with the adoption of new features in TLS1.3 such as the encrypted TLS server name indication (ESNI) in addition to other protocols such as the encrypted DNS such as DNS over HTTPS (DoH). TLS 1.3 is a great development in the secure transmission of data. But there’s a few security challenges that we need to be ready for. In this talk, I will present the current threat landscape and possible mitigation to some of the known malicious usages of the new privacy features implemented in TLS1.3. We will discuss the impact of TLS 1.3 on Network-based security solutions used by enterprises and public sector given that the several changes introduced in TLS 1.3 have a good goal to improve the overall security and privacy provided. However, some of these changes have a negative impact on network-based security solutions

Speaker - Khalid Alsuwaiyel
Khalid Alsuwaiyel is a Senior Incident Response Consultant in IBM X-Force IR team. He is responsible for the successful execution of incident response and proactive services to the X-Force IR customers in EMEA and globally. He has more than 6 years of professional experience, most of which are on the Digital Forensics team of the Saudi National Cyber Security Center. Khalid worked as a DFIR team leader for key critical National Infrastructures for more than 3 years. He holds the SANS GIAC Defending Advanced Threats (GDAT), GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) and Certified Threat Hunting Professional certifications along with others. He is a fierce forensicator who understands how the adversary thinks and what they might do. He is a known speaker on the topic of DFIR /Security, spoke in conferences such as RSA Abu Dhabi and the International Cyber Security Conference in Riyadh.

February 2021 Event Details

Date - 25th February 2021
Time - 4:00 PM

Unveiling BugHound: a static code analysis tool based on ElasticSearch
Bughound is an open-source static code analysis tool that analyzes your code and sends the results to Elasticsearch and Kibana instances to get useful insights about the potential vulnerabilities in your code.Bughound has its own Elasticsearch and Kibana Docker image that is preconfigured with dashboards to give you a strong visualization for the findings.You can easily pull and run the docker image and start the bughound python client which will analyze the code and then send it to the docker container which will visualize all the potential vulnerabilities for you.Bughound will search for any keywords “which is the unsafe functions” based on a JSON file contains these functions and the core code will make sure that these functions exist in the code, then it will ship them to the Bughound docker container.Bughound will map the results found in the code and store them in Elasticsearch which will help you to search manually for any potentially vulnerable code schema based on the unsafe functions found. Also, Bughound has a preconfigured Kibanna dashboards that will give you insights about the potential vulnerabilities that were found.

Speaker - Mohammad Askar
Mohammad Askar is a penetration tester, OSCP and OSCE certified, working in information security field with over 6 years of practical experience. He has worked with some private and government entities and has spent his time with them performing penetration testing for their infrastructures. Over the past few years, he has been contributing and building open source projects that are related to offensive security in general; Also, He has been focusing on discovering and developing exploits for 0-days that he found in various solutions. He spends his time breaking things or learning how to break things.

October 2020 Event Details

Date - 24th October 2020
Time - 4:00 PM

The Road Towards 365 Bugs in Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft 365 is used by over a million of companies and billions of users worldwide. According to Microsoft, Office 365 i.e., the world’s productivity cloud is a security-hardened service and follows the Microsoft Security Development Life-cycle. In this presentation, I will share the stories of my journey towards 365 valid bugs in Microsoft Office 365 umbrella applications. The talk will highlight the lessons learned during Office 365 bug hunting. 
The bounty award winning bugs that will be discussed during the presentation are:
1) Cross-tenant privacy leak in Office 365
2) All your Power Apps Portals belong to us
3) SQLi, CSRF(s) and SSRF in Dynamics 365
4) Privilege Escalation issues in SharePoint Online
5) Dozens of XSS(es) in Outlook- Some rate limiting issues

Further, the talk reveals XSS issues in Microsoft 365 Admin Centre, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Yammer, Microsoft Forms, Kaizala, Dynamics 365, SharePoint Online, Stream, Video 365, Azure, Security & Compliance services of Office 365. Last but not the least, we will share tips and tricks as far as how one can stay at the top to test the new and upcoming features of Office 365.

Speaker - Ashar Javed
Ashar Javed is a security engineer at Hyundai AutoEver Europe GmbH with over 5 years of experience. Before that he has spent three years as a security researcher for Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Ashar holds a PhD degree from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and MSc from Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany. His research interests include web application vulnerabilities and in particular Cross-Site Scripting.
Ashar delivered talks at main security events like Black Hat Europe 2014, HITB KL 2013, OWASP Spain (2014, 2015 & 2016), SAP Product Security Conference 2015, International PHP Conference 2015, ISACA Ireland 2014, RSA Europe (OWASP Seminar) 2013, DeepSec, Austria (2013, 2014, 2015 and 2018), and GISEC, Dubai 2016. In his free time, he likes to participate in bug bounty programs. Microsoft has recognised Ashar as No. 1 security researcher in Microsoft’s Security Response Center (#MSRC) Top 100 security researchers list of 2018 and at No. 4 spot in the 2019 and 2020 Most Valuable Security Researcher list. He blogs at “Respect XSS” and tweets at @soaj1664ashar

Past Meeting/Event(s)

September 2020 Event Details

Talk #1
Date - 26th September 2020
Time - 4:15 PM

DevSecOps:Separating Myth from reality
When you think about DevSecOps or DevOps, you probably think of tooling. A tool in every stage of secure SDLC, scanning on each commit. A few hundred to few thousand scans to gather all the issues for a project or maybe vulnerability management.Yet DevSecOps has completely changed the way we think of security. New ways of scaling information security mean that traditional security mechanisms like pentesting are no longer holy grails to secure organizations.More and more, organizations are working towards building security inside out rather than bolting it at the end, and security engineers are starting to see the benefits of this new type of security.But as more companies begin to embrace DevSecOps, both organizations and security managers have discovered that DevSecOps has its own complexities. These days there’s more folklore than the science behind DevSecOps in organizations, more myths than reality.Yet with the right attitude and a few simple ground rules, companies can benefit significantly from DevSecOps.
In this talk, you’ll also learn:

1. How organizations can bust DevSecOps myths and concentrate on reality.
   
2. Why it’s a good idea to think DevSecOps program from the organization’s point of view.
   
3. Why organizations need to streamline DevSecOps by concentrating on People, Process, and Technology.
   
   

Speaker - Mohammed A. Imran
Mohammed A. “secfigo” Imran is the Founder and CEO of Practical DevSecOps and seasoned security professional with over a decade of experience in helping organizations in their Information Security Programs. He has a diverse background in R&D, consulting, and product-based companies with a passion for solving complex security programs. He was the winner of DevSecOps Leadership award in United Kingdom for his contribution to the DevSecOps community globally. He was also nominated as a community star for being the go-to person in the community whose contributions and knowledge sharing has helped many professionals in the security industry. He is usually seen speaking and giving training in conferences like Blackhat, BruCon, DevSecCon, AppSec, All Day DevOps, Nullcon, and many other international conferences. He is the founder of Null Singapore, the most significant information security community in Singapore, where he has organized more than 60 events & workshops to spread security awareness.
His courses are avaiable at - Practical DevSecOps

Talk #2
Date - 26th September 2020
Time - 5:00 PM

Fundamentals of Malware Analysis & Reverse Engineering

This talk will take you through the fundamentals of malware analysis with the live demonstration and you’ll able to learn the following:

1. Why Malware Analysis ?
   
2. Malware Analysis Techniques
   
3. Malware Analysis Stages
   
   

Speaker - MOHAMMED SALAMI
Mohammed Salami is a Cyber Security Consultant with SITE and holds some of the prestigious certifications such as OSCE, GREM, OSCP, GPEN, GWAPT, EWPTX. His passion for Cyber Security started in early days of his schooling that led him to UK to pursue Bachelors in Computer Forensics & Ethical Hacking. Later, he completed his Masters in Cyber Security from UK as well. His area of expertise includes red teaming, malware analysis, penetration testing. He has been involved with the cyber security community from many years and was also nominated in the Top 10 UK university’s CTF, published cybercrime research for Saudi Arabia’s IT Security & Anti-Forensics techniques. He believes that sharing knowledge is one of the key to learn and grow.

August 2020 Event Details

Date - 29th August 2020
Time - 4:00 PM

Zero Trusting Your Enterprise - A Deep Dive Technical Implementation Guide.
Traditional IT network security is based on the castle concept. In castle security, it is hard to obtain access from outside the network, but everyone inside the network is trusted by default. Zero trust security is an IT security model that requires strict identity verification for every user and device trying to access resources on a network, regardless of whether they are sitting within or outside of the network perimeter. Zero trust s a holistic approach to network security that incorporates several different principles and implementations. We will discuss the best recommended ways to start implementing the zero trust concept in your enterprise.

Speaker - Abdulrahman Al-Nimari
A self-motivated renowned cyber security expert and a frequent conference speaker with more than 25 years of IT and cybersecurity experience. Al-Nimari played different roles, in government and private sectors, in different IT and cyber security fields: Network/System Administration, IT Management, Cybersecurity Advisory and Architecting. Always working to advance cyber security and contribute to community. Al-Nimari was awarded the Arab Social Media Cyber Security Influencer Award for year 2019. He holds industry standard cyber security and project management certifications: CISSP, CISM, CCISO, PMP, GSEC, GCIA, GCIH, GCUX, GREM, BCVRE

March 2020 Event Details

Date - 14th March 2020
Location - Al Masaa Cafe, 2239 Al Urubah Rd, Al Wurud, Riyadh 12214

Schedule:
20:00 - Introduction to OWASP Riyadh and the annual plan
20:30 - Brief Talk on “OWASP API Security Top 10” followed by Group Discussion
21:00 - Coffee and Networking

Attending the event: Kindly send us an email with your name and contact number to block your seat.

Meeting Supporters

OWASP Riyadh conducts meetings/talks at various locations across Riyadh. Currently, we are organizing events virtually. We organize quarterly talks on various topics covering application security. Moreover, there are also CTFs and workshops planned frequently.

Speaking at OWASP Riyadh Chapter Events

Call For Speakers

Call For Speakers is open - if you would like to present a talk on Application Security at future OWASP Riyadh Chapter events - please review and agree with the OWASP Speaker Agreement and send the proposed talk title, abstract and speaker bio to us via e-mail:

aatif.khan (at) owasp.org OR
rayed.almutiry (at) owasp.org