Last week I was at the Security-Zone 2007, which is the most important security related event we’ve got here in Switzerland (and it’s by the way absolutely for free). At this event Hans-Peter Waldegger and I had a talk in the name of the OWASP Switzerland Local Chapter, which was focused on structured application security testing. For this, we first demonstrated how an application could be attacked and afterwards we presented the OWASP Testing Framework based on the Testing Project. We had an audience of about 80 people so the presentation room was full, which shows me that the topic of web application security finally also arrived in Switzerland.

From my point of view it was a great success and many security people in Switzerland know now about the OWASP because of our talk, the article I wrote for their newsletter or at least the big OWASP logo they’ve printed on each free ticket. I really hope that this will help the mission of the OWASP and will also bring us new people to the OWASP Local Chapter here in Switzerland so that we can for example start working on projects.

Last but not least, I really like to thank all the people behind the Security-Zone (especially Rafael Cruz) for giving that great support to the OWASP and I’m really looking forward to be there again next year.