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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 applications as well as general rules for developing protected applications. For more information, visit www.owasp.org.
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About New York Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference: This is the first collaborative event cooperatively developed, organized, and sponsored by the following leading information security industry organizations and chapters: InfraGard (New York Metro), ISACA (New York Metro, New Jersey, and Greater Hartford CT), ISCU (New Jersey), ISSA (New York Metro) - OWASP (New York Metro, Brooklyn and Long Island), HTCIA (Northeast) and ACFE (New Jersey).
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AppSec Europe, from 23-26 June, is organized by the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Foundation, an open-source organization with over 45,000 corporate, educational and individual participants from around the world.
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Take a look at the OWASP Top 10, for example, RFI and Directory Traversal were not identified as top vulnerabilities, yet our research shows that these are two of the most common attacks used by hackers to steal data.
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Delivered through a SaaS model, QualysGuard WAS delivers automated crawling and testing for custom Web applications to identify most common vulnerabilities such as those in the OWASP Top 10 and WASC Threat Classification, including SQL injection and cross-site scripting.
Qualys adds application scanning to SaaS security suite
OWASP is a community project, staffed by developers from across the world who have agreed to share their experience and expertise in order to identify common threats and advise on how to prevent them.
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