ADVISORY/Stratum8 Hosts Free Webinar by OWASP on Securing Top 10 Web Application Vulnerabilities.Business/Technology Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday (Feb. 6) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHO: Jeffrey Williams, OWASP Project Leader and CEO of Aspect
Security
WHAT: The point of attack for web break-ins and hacks has
shifted from the network to the application level. This
Webinar will cover the Open Web Application Security
Project (OWASP) Top 10 List of critical application
security vulnerabilities that require immediate
remediation by government agencies and enterprises. The
Top 10 list was compiled by leading application security
experts that participate in OWASP, which is an Open Source
community project staffed entirely by volunteers from
around the world.
During this one-hour Webinar attendees will learn about:
-- The OWASP Top 10 web vulnerabilities including
cross-site scripting flaws and broken access
control
-- Strategies for securing web applications before
they go live
-- Secure use of cryptography
-- Best practices in application protection
-- Recent advances in web server security
Following the OWASP presentation, attendees
will have the option to learn how the
Stratum8 Application Protection System
secures web applications from virtually all
vulnerabilities including those in the
OWASP Top 10 vulnerability areas.
Registered attendees will also receive a
copy of the OWASP report: The Ten Most
Critical Web Application Security
Vulnerabilities.
WHERE: Web-based seminar delivered to your desktop
WHEN: February 6, 2003 at 11:00 am PT (2:00 pm ET)
HOW: Space is limited to the first 300 registrants. To
register please visit:
http://www.stratum8.com/news_events/webinars/owasp.shtml
About Stratum stratum /stra·tum/ (strat´um) (stra´tum) pl. stra´ta [L.] a layer or lamina. stratum basa´le 8 Networks Founded in 2000, Stratum8 Networks develops quick-to-deploy, self-configuring security products that protect Web servers, Web applications and databases from known and undocumented vulnerabilities. Stratum8's customers are Fortune 1000 companies, leading Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. players, and government agencies that need to protect sensitive Web-based applications See Web application. and data from unauthorized access or malicious Involving malice; characterized by wicked or mischievous motives or intentions. An act done maliciously is one that is wrongful and performed willfully or intentionally, and without legal justification. DESERTION, MALICIOUS. attack. Stratum8 is privately held and headquartered in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . To contact Stratum8 call 408-850-0800, visit us on the Web at www.stratum8.com, or write to info@stratum8.com. About OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) An organization founded by Mark Curphey in 2001 to help make open source software secure. With member communities around the world, OWASP projects are involved with specific programming languages, functions and The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an open source project staffed entirely by volunteers from across the world. OWASP is dedicated to helping organizations understand and improve the security of their web applications and web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. . The project offers free software tools and documentation to raise awareness, detect problems, and provide protection against web application attacks. Visit www.owasp.org for more information. About Aspect Security Aspect Security specializes in web application and web services security. Aspect's expert staff is responsible for the security of financial, healthcare, biotechnology, e-commerce, Fortune 500, and government web applications. Aspect provides code review, penetration testing A test of a network's vulnerabilities by having an authorized individual actually attempt to break into the network. The tester may undertake several methods, workarounds and "hacks" to gain entry, often initially getting through to one seemingly harmless section, and from there, , policy development, and developer security training services to find, diagnose diagnose /di·ag·nose/ (di´ag-nos) to identify or recognize a disease. di·ag·nose v. 1. To distinguish or identify a disease by diagnosis. 2. , and eliminate vulnerabilities in your custom web application code. To contact Aspect Security call 410-707-1487, visit us on the Web at www.aspectsecurity.com, or write to info@aspectsecurity.com. |
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