📅 Date: November 12, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM EST – Arrival, setup & pizza 🍕
6:30 PM EST – Technical Talks
📍 Location: 150 Louis-Pasteur Private, University of Ottawa, Room 564
🔗 RSVP: www.meetup.com/owasp-ottawa...
📹 Livestream: www.youtube.com/@owasp_ottawa

#OWASP #Ottawa #AppSec #ThreatModeling

Being a PhD candidate and a hardware hacker, René will talk about how modern software development cycles assume that hardware is safe, and their threat model does not involve planning for sabotaged chips.

A practical demonstration will show why this may not be a good idea.

Missed this talk? Catch the recorded version of this talk on our YouTube channel.

📹: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckC5...

📅 Date: October 9, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM EST – Arrival, setup & pizza 🍕
6:30 PM EST – Technical Talks
📍 Location: 150 Louis-Pasteur Private, University of Ottawa, Room 117
🔗 RSVP: www.meetup.com/owasp-ottawa...
📹 Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckC5...

#OWASP #Ottawa #AppSec #SecureCoding

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!

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

📽️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tza_...

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

📅 Date: September 17, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM EST – Arrival, setup & pizza 🍕
6:30 PM EST – Technical Talks
📍 Location: 150 Louis-Pasteur Private, University of Ottawa, Room 117
🔗 RSVP: www.meetup.com/owasp-ottawa...

📺 Can’t join in person? We’ll livestream on YouTube on our channel: www.youtube.com/@OWASP_Ottawa

🔗 RSVP now: www.meetup.com/owasp-ottawa...

Come learn, network, and grab some pizza 🍕 with Ottawa’s cybersecurity community!
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#OWASP #Ottawa #Cybersecurity #AI #AISecurity #FraudDetection

🎙️ 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?

🎙️ 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.

Event details:

📅 Date: August 20, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM EST – Arrival, setup & pizza 🍕
6:30 PM EST – Technical Talks
📍 Location: 150 Louis-Pasteur Private, University of Ottawa, Room 117

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

📅 Date: June 18, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:00 PM EST – Arrival, setup & pizza 🍕
6:30 PM EST – Technical Talks
📍 Location: 150 Louis-Pasteur Private, University of Ottawa, Room 117
🔗 RSVP: www.meetup.com/owasp-ottawa...