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| January 29, 2010 | | What do the OWASP Bay Area chapter, risk, and the adult film industry have in common? |  You don’t know what these 3 things have in common? Are you serious? Where do I start? Long story short, I was looking for a funny way to introduce my presentation on application security risk at the Bay Area OWASP event a couple of weeks ago. After all it was late in the evening and I was seriously concerned that folks might fall asleep on me. Never a very encouraging thing when you present. In any event, after talking to some colleagues of mine prior to my presentation a great idea occurred to me (or so I thought at the time).
So I informed the audience that I just returned from Cenzic’s 2010 sales kick off meeting at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, NV which happened to coincide with the Adult Film Industry Conference. And all that visual stimulation gave me the idea to create my presentation slides on risk and how to “measure” risk (get it?) and how Cenzic arrived at our HARM score (Hailstorm Application Risk Metric).
OK – I’m the first one to admit, it was sort of cheesy. But I was hoping they’d humor me with a few grunts of laughter instead of snoring. All I got was crickets. Then one hand rose out of the crowd and asked, “Were you in Vegas during the Consumer Electronics Show?” Hmm, so I guess the audience was way more easy than I had thought they’d be. No need to talk about what’s new in the adult film industry, just a good discussion around web application risk management. So my presentation wasn’t boring after all. Glad I had such an easy audience. ;-) And I’m happy to say that I didn’t notice anybody snoring…
In any event, if you’d like a copy of my slides on how Cenzic quantifies risk analysis in Web applications, contact marketing for the PDF file (eswanson@cenzic.com).
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Lars Ewe, CTO
Lars@cenzic.com | | |
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