OWASP Top 10 Introduction

The Open Web Application Security Project maintains a regularly-updated list of the most pressing web application security concerns. The OWASP Top 10 is a standard awareness document for developers and web application security. It represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications.

Austin will give an overview of the OWASP Top 10, including what the current Top 10 represents, how it is chosen, and how it is managed. The talk will include a quick technical summary of each of the Top 10, how the vulnerabilities are introduced into systems, how they can be detected, and how they can be prevented. This is an introductory talk and will cover ground that experienced practitioners will know already, but people new to the industry will hopefully find this valuable.

As the presentation would cover the last Top 10 updates, it could useful also for experienced practitioners.

Presenter - Austin Chamberlain

Austin Chamberlain is a scientist with Defence Science and Technology, part of the New Zealand Defence Force.

Austin started his career as a system administrator working predominantly on web-facing systems. This provided a fast understanding of information security, and he focused increasingly on information and cyber security, making the jump to a cyber role in due course. He served part time in the British Army reserve, initially as a logistics officer, and later transferring to a cyber operations role. In his civilian career he has predominantly worked in the academic sector.

This combination of academia, technical and military cyber experience provided a strong foundation for a military cyber research role, and he now works on studying and integrating next generation and generation-beyond-next cyber capabilities into the NZDF.