Vandana Verma
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OWASP Women in AppSec - 2018 Updates

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Among the WIA activities that have engaged women in security are:

  1. Caroline Wong leads Women in Security panel at AppSec California 2018: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=56ze8cggM3c&t=106s

  2. WIA Committee Secretary and Asia Volunteer Coordinator, Vandana Verma leads monthly OWASP WIA + InfoSec Girls Information Security Knowledge Exchange webinars. The recording of the August webinar, with presenters, Alka Bhargava and Tanya Janca is available on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3_xpiwbzl5Q

  3. PortSwigger journalist, Jessica Haworth, captures WIA value after connecting with Vandana Verma, Jessica Robinson and fellow WIA participants at the OWASP AppSecEU 2018 conference in July: https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/a-seat-at-the-table-owasp-champions-women-in-cybersecurity

  4. Debra Okwuzi, along with Vandana Verma and Tanya Janca gave a OWASP WIA + SheSecures (https://shesecures.org/) women’s cybersecurity training webinar in July

  5. OWASP WIA collaborated with Women’s Cyberjutsu, hosts a women’s event at the major annual Las Vegas information security conferences (BlackHat and DefCon): https://womenscyberjutsu.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?alias=LVHappyHour

  6. OWASP WIA partners with Janie Gelfond and Mark Miller to encourage community building for more OWASP chapters to host (free) All Day DevOps 2018 view parties, based around industry research presented by global DevOps / DevOpsSec experts during the online conference. Janie Gelfond, describes view party suggestions in the following blog post: https://www.alldaydevops.com/blog/friends-dont-let-friends-devops-alone

  7. OWASP WIA support and Presentation @BSides Delft, Katherine as a speaker

  8. OWASP Cairo + WIA + Cyber Talents (@Cyber_Talents) CTF webinar (Saturday December 1, 2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weZbB6iNz4k&feature=youtu.be

  1. OWASP WIA + InfoSec December Girls InfoSec Knowledge Exchange webinar (Saturday December 8, 2018): https://www.meetup.com/womeninappsec/events/256592835/

  1. IoT Grand Slam (Tuesday December 11, 2018): https://iotslam.com/iot-slam-live-2018-agenda/ - Loredana Mancini (OWASP WIA Committee Vice Chair, OWASP Rome Chapter)

  2. Article recognising OWASP / WIA global contribution to application security, workforce development diversity inclusion efforts (December https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/ict-femminile-leva-strategica-per-la-crescita-del-paese/

  1. Women CTF Preparation Day at BK CS Camp 2018 (Friday, December 14 - Saturday, December 15) OWASP Cairo Chapter + WIA + BK CS Camp: https://www.cairosecuritycamp.com/women-in-cybersecurity/

To join the OWASP Women in AppSec collaboration, subscribe to our global mailing list (owasp-women-in-appsec@lists.owasp.org), and follow us on Twitter (@OWASPWIA)

Looking forward to hearing from you as an open, innovative global community. Happy New Year!