May 21st Chapter Meeting - Web Application Security

Important Note: Due to a scheduling conflict, the venue for this meeting has changed!

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Web application vulnerabilities have created some of the most pressing security issues we face in our modern world. How are attackers exploiting these weaknesses and what can we do to protect our infrastructure?

Come join us as the ISSA Capital of Texas chapter presents a panel discussion on Web Application Security. Panelists joining us will be:

Phil Agcaolli, Dell : (Director I) Senior Manager, Global Information Security Assurance & Security Consulting at Dell and a Council Member at Corporate Security Councils, Committees, and Boards. Phil recently won the 2009 Information Security Executive of the Year Central award and he is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance.

Gary Buonacorsi, Texas Office of the Attorney General: The Chief Information Officer and Information Resource Manager for the Texas Office of the Attorney General. Gary has worked in both the private and public sectors of the ever-growing and
challenging field of information technology. His responsibilities include agency-wide strategic and tactical planning, development of all technology systems, and overseeing all aspects of IT operations. Most recently, Gary was the Chief Technical Officer for the Department of Information Technology in Nevada. Prior to that post, he served as the
CIO for Nevada's Division of Welfare, which includes their Child Support programs.

Frosty Walker, Texas Secretary of State: Frosty has been with the Office of the Texas Secretary of State (SOS) for 4 years as ISO. Prior to SOS Frosty spent 10 years with AT&T’s Legal Division establishing corporate wide information security policies and supporting their litigation teams. Today, Frosty manages the SOS Information Security Program which oversees several large enterprise applications with thousands of users and is PCI-DSS compliant.

Dan Cornell, Denim Group (Moderator): Dan Cornell has over twelve years of experience architecting, developing and securing web-based software systems. As a Principal of Denim Group, he leads the organization's technology team overseeing methodology development and project execution for Denim Group's customers. He also heads the Denim Group application security research team, investigating the application of secure coding and development techniques to the improvement of web based software development methodologies.

Format:
· 5 minute overview from why this is so important, Introductions
· 10-12 minutes for each panelist (36 max) to talk about their roadmap and their accomplishments
· 20 minutes for questions and discussion points

Bring your questions, and arrive early so you may enjoy some good networking time before the meeting.

As usual, a drawing. open to chapter members, will take place for a free book.