Application Security in North East England

A special web application security meeting is being held at the School of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne on Wednesday 16th June.

In March Northumbria University became OWASP's first (and so far only) educational supporter in the UK, and joins a number of highly respected academic institutions around the world. This is perhaps not entirely unexpected due to the region's entrepreneurial culture, its digital renaissance in recent years, the area's highly skilled technical workforce and Northumbria University's proactive efforts to improve information security such as its innovative program for SMEs. Oh, and its a great area to live in.

The region has a well-developed support infrastructure for the digital industry including Codeworks Connect, AppNorth, Design Network North, Sunderland Software City, the Institute of Digital Innovation at Teesside University and One North East. Now, the Leeds/North chapter of the The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is holding its first event in north east England hosted by Northumbria University.

There will be four talks on ENISA Common Assurance Maturity Model, Open Source Software Myths, SSL/TLS - Just When You Thought it was Safe to Return and OWASP AppSensor - The Self-Aware Web Application. I am presenting the first and last talks. The talks span compliance, network communication, configuration, verification and building security in. They will be of interest to digital entrepreneurs, owners of software start-up companies, computing and design students, as well as software architects, designers, developers, testers and information system auditors.

The event is free but you need to register to attend.