Hi Room,

It's barely halfway through January and it's shaping up to be a very interesting year for Information Security in Nigeria.

We want to invite you to our event:

Nigeria's first OWASP event on February 13, 2016: Please register here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-ethical-hackers-at-the-first-owasp-lagos-event-tickets-20788008493





The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) meets for the first time in Nigeria at CC-HUB, Lagos on February 13, 2016.
OWASP is an online community which creates freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security

Event Outline:
Chapter leads - our background, how we got into security, stuff we're exploring or hope to learn and what we hope to achieve in starting OWASP Lagos.
About OWASP: A look at OWASP, her objectives, some flagship projects (tools, guidelines, cheat sheets)


Talk 1: Introduction to OWASP ZAP
The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. This talk will describe the tool and how to use it for validating web application security.


Talk 2: Exploiting a Vulnerable website to steal user credentials and gain root

This talk will describe how user authentication credentials can hijacked on a vulnerable website, using a practical demo. It will also demonstrate the compromise of a web server hosting a vulnerable web application.


Talk 3: The OWASP Web Security Shepherd

The OWASP Security Shepherd project is a web and mobile application security training platform. Security Shepherd has been designed to foster and improve security awareness among a varied skill-set demographic. In this session we'll introduce the security shepherd and use it to learn SQL Injection . PLEASE BRING YOUR LAPTOPS.
WHEN
Saturday, February 13, 2016 from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM (WAT)