Seba

Yes, there is some time left besides OWASP.

I’ve been to a Front242 concert last Friday in a re-opened club in Leuven.

This Belgian band is the (grand)father of a lot of electronic music. If you’re into electro check them out!

Now on the OWASP time: I try to organize 4 events per year. 

Be prepared to invest up to 8 hours preparation and administration time per OWASP chapter meeting.

It starts with finding speakers / topics. Then you have to organize the place and sponsoring.

Besides posting the meeting on the OWASP web site - including the upcoming events -, I do send an invitation mail to the BE chapter mailing list and a personal mail to a broader mailing list. The best timing is about 3 weeks before the chaper meeting with a reminder one week before the chapter meeting.

After the meeting there is some administration: the CISSP attendance sheet and the meeting minutes online.

Regards,

Seba

A member of the PHP security team has left in apparent disgust over the team’s security practices.

http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/82500

What hope is left to make PHP safer if even PHP security team members are giving up?

An important point is discussed here: Should PHP be made secure from ‘inside’ or must the PHP users develop more secure.

I think the truth is somewhere in between, but it is a long road…

Rgds,

 Seba

I just realized that the results were not presented during the New Years drink, we had better things to do than that

Hereby the uploaded results of least year.

regards,

 Seba

About a year and a half ago I volunteered to start the Belgian OWASP chapter.

I have to say: it made interesting times.

With this blog I want to share the experience and encourage others to start your chapter or aid your current chapter in bringing the OWASP message home.

I just launched the second poll for the OWASP BE chapter with the following questions:

Q1: Do you consider yourself:
a) “New to beginner” on (Web)AppSec topics
b) “Having some knowledge-experience� on (Web)AppSec topics
c) “Advanced to expert” on (Web)AppSec topics

Q2: How many chapter meetings would you like to attend in 2007:
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

Q3: If given some time to prepare a topic, would you consider preparing a session for a chapter meeting:
a) yes
b) no

Q4: What is your opinion of the Owasp events this year?
a) A waste of time
b) Somewhat interesting, but I will not come anymore
c) I liked it, and will maybe come to some chapter meetings next year
d) Great! I would recommend it to everybody implicated or interested in (Web)AppSec

Q5: What would you recommend to make our chapter meetings more interesting for you?

Let’s hope we have lot’s of responses and good feedback.

The results of last year were published during the New Years drink of 2006 and can be found on the chapter page: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Belgium

Untill next time…

Seba