FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
| CONTACT: | Bill Husted |
Aspect Security Sponsors 5th OWASP AppSec Conference
Industry Leaders Unite to Discuss Application Security Challenges
OWASP AppSec Conference - Seattle, WA - Oct. 4, 2006
The OWASP AppSec Conference series is a focused forum for industry and security researchers to communicate about application security iissues. Aspect Security has supported OWASP since its inception, and has played a key role in the growth of the application security community.
Jeff Williams, founder and CEO of Aspect Security as well as Chairman of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation said, “The OWASP AppSec Conference is a unique forum for progress in application security. OWASP's strict policies about influence from biased vendors and firm belief in open source makes the conference incredibly useful. The OWASP AppSec conferences aren't commercially focused, so the papers and presentations are the unbiased work of the best application security researchers around...and OWASP is a not-for-profit, so the conference fees are extremely low."
The Seattle OWASP conference will feature Michael Howard, speaking about the "Benefits of the SDL initiative to Microsoft and its Customers." Michael is the Senior Security Program Manager at Microsoft and coauthor of "Writing Secure Code," "19 Deadly Sins of Software Security," and the recently released "Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)."
About Aspect Security, Inc.
Aspect Security, the application security specialists, delivers third-party security analysis, code review, and testing to verify the strengths and weaknesses of web applications, web services, and other software. Aspect also appraises an organization’s capability to develop, operate, and maintain applications securely. Aspect has verified hundreds of millions of lines of code for mission critical applications and has trained thousands of developers and managers to build and test secure applications. Aspect served as the authors of the OWASP Top Ten Web Application Vulnerabilities. Aspect’s core team has been providing application security services for over eight years, since before application security was a mainstream issue. Aspect is privately held and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. To contact Aspect Security, call 301-604-4882, visit us on the Web at http://www.aspectsecurity.com, or write to info@aspectsecurity.com.