Last week the OWASP AppSecUSA 2013 conference was held in the legendary New York City , where I had the pleasure of giving a talk on security software development title “Verify Your Software for Security Bugs” and present my new project BinSecSweeper, a technology that allows you to verify the security posture of any binary on different platforms.
The development of BinSecSweeper was possible thanks to an R&D grant from the DARPA Cyber Fast Track (CFT) program to improve the security in software development. For more information, I recommend to read the description of the project here.
The conference took place at the Marriot Marquis hotel in Times Square, in the heart of Manhattan, and more than 1500 people interested in security did attend! As always in the OWASP events we could see well-known faces in the world of security with which I had the pleasure of chatting as well as new faces. A greeting to all those people!
As expected, this year many talks focused on mobile security, mainly Android and iPhone. Also there were many talks about Web security and OWASP projects, although I have to admit that some talks were not up to par.
Please find below some screenshots of BinSecSweeper, that will be published soon 😉
Fig. 1 – BinSecSweeper auditing a Windows binary under Linux
Fig. 2 – BinSecSweeper auditing a Linux binary under Linux
Thanks to the AppSecUSA team for a great event organization, it has been a pleasure to participate! See you in future editions!
— Simon Roses Femerling
