Foundstone to Conduct Webcast on OWASP Top 10 List.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MISSION VIEJO Mission Vi·e·jo A community of southern California southeast of Irvine. It is mainly residential. Population: 96,300. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2004 Mark Curphey, Foundstone Director of Consulting and 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 Chair, Will Explain Top 10 List and Offer Insight on Improving Web Application Security Foundstone Inc., experts in strategic security, today announced an upcoming webcast that will discuss the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 list of web application vulnerabilities. Presented by Mark Curphey, the OWASP chair and director of consulting at Foundstone, the webcast entitled "Web Security - The OWASP Top 10 Explained" will be held at 11 a.m. EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy on Wednesday, Feb. 11. Offered in conjunction with Global Knowledge, the webcast will explain the OWASP Top 10 list, which addresses the most critical web application security problems, and offer strategies on how to use the report to create awareness among developers and as a baseline for an application security posture assessment. First created and distributed in January 2003, OWASP created this list to help 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. . This week, OWASP has updated the Top 10 list, adding a new category for web application denial of service A condition in which a system can no longer respond to normal requests. See denial of service attack. vulnerabilities that are becoming more and more prevalent. Widely recognized as an expert in web application security, Curphey is the director of consulting for Foundstone Inc. and founder and chair of OWASP. Previously, he was director of information security at Charles Schwab Charles Schwab can refer to:
Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. Systems and held senior information security roles at several international investment banks in Europe. He earned a master's degree in information security from the renowned Royal Holloway, University of London For most practical purposes, ranging from admission of students to negotiating funding from the government, the 19 constituent colleges are treated as individual universities. Within the university federation they are known as Recognised Bodies where he specialized in advanced cryptography. More details on the OWASP Top 10 webcast, including registration information, can be found at www.foundstone.com/resources/webcasts.htm. About Foundstone Foundstone(R) Inc., experts in strategic security, offers a unique combination of software, services, and education to help organizations continuously and measurably protect the most important assets from the most critical threats. Through a strategic approach to security, Foundstone identifies and implements the right balance of technology, people, and process to manage digital risk and leverage security investments more effectively. The company has one of the most dominant security talent pools ever assembled, and has authored twenty books, including the best-seller Hacking Exposed. Foundstone customers include six of the top 11 Fortune companies and many U.S. government agencies. The company is headquartered in Orange County, Calif., and has offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Washington, Seattle and Singapore. For more information about Foundstone, visit www.foundstone.com, or call 877.91.FOUND within the U.S., and 949.297.5600 outside the U.S. |
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