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The OWASP Chapter for Canada's Capital region. https://owasp.org/ottawa/ Join us for monthly meetups discussing a variety of security topics.
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πŸ“£ OWASP Ottawa October 2025 Meetup πŸ“£

We are excited to host Tanya Janca (@shehackspurple.bsky.social) present "Secure Code is Critical Infrastructure - Hacking Policy for the Public Good"

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We are getting setup for today’s workshop.

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Last night, OWASP Ottawa had the pleasure of hosting @shehackspurple.bsky.social for her insightful talk, titled "Secure Code Is Critical Infrastructure".

Thank you, Tanya, for this amazing talk, and we look forward to more talks from you in the future.
Tanya will share insights into what happens when a security professional tries to help a government fix insecure software?

She will share her journey, from writing secure coding guidelines and lobbying officials, to going public when faced with silence.

You do NOT want to miss this talk!
πŸ“£ OWASP Ottawa October 2025 Meetup πŸ“£

We are excited to host Tanya Janca (@shehackspurple.bsky.social) present "Secure Code is Critical Infrastructure - Hacking Policy for the Public Good"

Details below πŸ‘‡
Missed this talk? Check out the recorded version of this talk on our YouTube channel, along with plenty of our past talks!

πŸ“½οΈ: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tza_...
OWASP Ottawa September 2025 - Sufficient Logging & Monitoring
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Last night, OWASP Ottawa had the pleasure of hosting Robert Babaev for his insightful talk, titled "(Finally) Sufficient Logging and Monitoring - MCP Edition".

Thank you, Robert, for this amazing talk, and we look forward to more talks from you in the future.
Happening today!

Not gonna make it? Watch the live stream on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/watch?v=tza_...

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Robert will go over painless approaches to getting set up with centralized logging, metrics, tracing, and a rudimentary SIEM. He'll also go over some other potential avenues for achieving better observability, and some tips and tricks for developers.

#OWASP #Ottawa #Cybersecurity #AppSec #MCP
πŸ“… Date: September 17, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM EST – Arrival, setup & pizza πŸ•
6:30 PM EST – Technical Talks
πŸ“ Location: 150 Louis-Pasteur Private, University of Ottawa, Room 117
πŸ”— RSVP: www.meetup.com/owasp-ottawa...
πŸ“£ OWASP Ottawa September 2025 Meetup πŸ“£

We are excited to have Robert Babaev present "Finally! Sufficient Logging and Monitoring (MCP Edition)"

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Adam kicks off a full house for #OWASP #Ottawa August meetup.
Happening this upcoming Wednesday (August 20, 2025)!

Enjoy the amazing talks, network within the Ottawa cybersecurity & tech community, and enjoy the pizza πŸ•

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πŸ“£ OWASP Ottawa August 2025 Meetup πŸ“£

OWASP Ottawa is back from the summer break, and we have not one, but two amazing security talks planned for our upcoming meetup

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πŸŽ™οΈ Talk 2: "Beyond APIs: MCP Security for AI Integrations" with Harsh Makwana

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is changing how LLMs interact with tools and data, but how do we securely implement them?
πŸŽ™οΈ Talk 1: "Doing More with Less: An Adaptive, Label-Efficient Approach to Fraud Detection from Day One" with Bahar Afshar

Discover an innovative approach on how to detect financial fraud using adaptive, label-efficient AI approaches, even when labeled, fraudulent data is scarce.
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πŸ“… Date: August 20, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM EST – Arrival, setup & pizza πŸ•
6:30 PM EST – Technical Talks
πŸ“ Location: 150 Louis-Pasteur Private, University of Ottawa, Room 117
πŸ“£ OWASP Ottawa August 2025 Meetup πŸ“£

OWASP Ottawa is back from the summer break, and we have not one, but two amazing security talks planned for our upcoming meetup

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This past Wednesday, OWASP Ottawa had the pleasure of hosting Ahmed Shah, Mathieu Quirion and Kevin Tremblay from Malleum for an informative session on Social Engineering.

The packed room and viewers-online were treated to a plethora of social engineering techniques!

Thank you for this session!
The talk will focus on Social engineering attacks and defenses.

Attendees will learn about OSINT, Email phishing, Phone social engineering and Physical security, along with learning how to defend from such attacks and improve the organization's human defenses
πŸ“£ OWASP Ottawa June 2025 Meetup πŸ“£

We are excited to have Kyle Falcon, Ahmed Shah, Mathieu Quirion, and Kevin Tremblay from Malleum
present "Hacking the Human Firewall: Insights from Social Engineering Corporations"

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Our room has changed for this evening's #OWASP #Ottawa meetup:
πŸ“… Date: May 21, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM EST
πŸ“ Location: 150 Louis-Pasteur Private, University of Ottawa, IBM-UofO CyberRange 5thFloor
πŸ”—: www.meetup.com/owasp-ottawa...
Please note updated room: uOttawa-IBM Cyber Range, 5th Floor of the Faculty of Engineering building (STEM Complex), 150 Louis-Pasteur Private