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  #OWASP #Ottawa is proud to partner with Tech2Step Ottawa for our OWASP Ottawa Day 2026 event. Keep the conversations going after OWASP Day at the University of Ottawa with a relaxed Tech2Step Walk & Connect. ​Join cybersecurity professionals from across Ottawa’s ecosystem for an informal 45–60 minute walk exploring career paths, emerging skills, communities, and what’s next in cybersecurity. ​Participants will head out in casual walking groups to connect one-on-one with cybersecurity...

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  #OWASP #Ottawa is pleased to share that Ben Gardiner will be speaking at OWASP Ottawa Day 2026: "When a Noise Triggered Recall is also a Security Patch" 📅 October 17, 2026 📍 University of Ottawa - STEM 117 ℹ️ Information: https://tinyurl.com/87j33b82 🎟️ Tickets (free): https://buytickets.at/owaspottawachapter/2389944 #OWASPOttawa20226 #appsec #VehicleSecurity

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  #OWASP #Ottawa is proud to announce that Farshad Abasi, Security leader and founder of Eureka DevSecOps and Forward Security will be speaking at OWASP Ottawa Day 2026. "Your Threat Model is Lying to You: Why Modeling the design Isn't Enough in 2026" This session explores how to close that gap and continuously evolve threat models using evidence from the systems we actually deploy. 📅 October 17, 2026 📍 University of Ottawa - STEM 117 ℹ️ Information: tinyurl.com/87j33b...

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  On behalf of OWASP Ottawa, a huge thank you to ForwardJS for supporting OWASP’s 25th Anniversary event at OWASP Ottawa Day! Your generosity makes it possible for us to bring together the Ottawa security community for a full day of workshops, mentoring sessions, and talks. Events like this only happen because organizations like ForwardJS believe in investing in the community and in giving people a place to learn, connect, and grow. We couldn't have pulled off this milestone without you....

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  #OWASP #Ottawa is proud to announce that Sabrina Lavi , Security Champions Community Lead for Thales Cyber Security Products (CSP) will be speaking at OWASP Ottawa Day 2026. "People-Powered Security: Scaling AppSec Through Champions, Community, and Culture" Security champions can do far more than raise awareness, they build stronger connections between security and engineering, scale expertise, and make secure practices part of everyday work. 📅 October 17, 2026 📍 University...

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  #OWASP #Ottawa is proud to announce that Faustin Bouchard, whose work centred on AI interpretability, alignment, and behavioural integrity, will be speaking at OWASP Ottawa Day 2026. "Stop Policing Words. Govern Authorization." This talk reframes AI security as an authorisation problem, focusing on what systems allow malicious prompts to do rather than on the prompts themselves. 📅 October 17, 2026 📍 University of Ottawa - STEM 117 ℹ️ Information: tinyurl.com/87j33b82 🎟️ Ticket...

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  On behalf of OWASP Ottawa, a huge thank you to Managed Risk Partners for supporting OWASP’s 25th Anniversary event at OWASP Ottawa Day! Your generosity makes it possible for us to bring together the Ottawa security community for a full day of workshops, mentoring sessions, and talks. Events like this only happen because organizations like Managed Risk Partners believe in investing in the community and in giving people a place to learn, connect, and grow. We couldn't have pulled off thi...

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  #OWASP #Ottawa is proud to announce that Magno Logan, product security leader, researcher, and educator will present at OWASP Ottawa Day 2026. "Nobody's Mining Crypto Anymore: What Attackers Actually Want From Your CI" A look at how attackers are compromising GitHub Actions and software supply chains and what teams can do to better secure CI/CD workflows, tokens, and release infrastructure. 📅 October 17, 2026 📍 University of Ottawa - STEM 117 ℹ️ Information: tinyurl.c...

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  #OWASP #Ottawa is proud to announce that Kishan Nagendra will be speaking at OWASP Ottawa Day 2026. "Agentic AI Design Patterns and Their Security Implications" This talk breaks down the core security risks in autonomous AI agents, showing how identity abuse, trust failures, state leakage, and unsafe autonomy drive real-world agentic attacks. 📅 October 17, 2026 📍 University of Ottawa - STEM 117 ℹ️ Information: tinyurl.com/87j33b82 🎟️ Tickets (free): tinyurl.com/mr2z6z8r #O...

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  #OWASP #Ottawa is proud to announce that the dynamic duo of L@gill3tt3 and the mysterious @fennix will present: "50 Shades of Red - Red Teaming & Pentesting in Practice" This talk explores the differences and overlap between red teaming and penetration testing, how each strengthens security programmes, and what it takes to build a career in offensive security. 📅 October 17, 2026 📍 University of Ottawa - STEM 117 ℹ️ Information: tinyurl.com/87j33b82 🎟️ Tickets (free): t...

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  On behalf of #OWASP #Ottawa, a huge thank you to Mark Cimon for supporting OWASP’s 25th Anniversary event at OWASP Ottawa Day! Your generosity makes it possible for us to bring together the Ottawa security community for a full day of workshops, mentoring sessions, and talks. Events like this only happen because organizations like Forward Security believe in investing in the community and in giving people a place to learn, connect, and grow. We couldn't have pulled off this milestone wi...

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  🚨 OWASP Ottawa June 2026 Meetup - with Ali Sadeghi Jahromi 🚨 OWASP Ottawa is excited to announce our June 2026 meetup featuring: Blackout at Scale: A Multi-Perspective Study of Iran's Internet Shutdown The details are as follows: 📍 Location: 150 Louis-Pasteur Private, University of Ottawa, Room 117 📅 Date: Wednesday June 17, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM EST - Arrival, networking, & pizza! 🍕 6:30 PM EST - Technical Talks Blackout at Scale: A Multi-Perspective Study of Iran's I...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@OWASP_Ottawa/116720904012119024 Our monthly meetup is happening tomorrow (June 17)! As always, we will also be livestreaming the event on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@owasp_ottawa All details in the original post 👇 #owasp #ottawa #appsec #cybersecurity

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  🎉 Announcing OWASP Ottawa Day 2026 🎉 OWASP Ottawa is excited to announce that we will be hosting the “OWASP Ottawa Day 2026” on October 17, 2026, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the @owasp Foundation! To make this a memorable event, we are inviting people from different fields within the Cyber Security community to present at our event. Whether you are a seasoned cybersecurity veteran with plenty of war stories or a budding cybersecurity enthusiast who wants to sha...

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  We’re looking for local organizations to help sponsor food, beverages, and/or swag for OWASP Ottawa Day on October 17, 2026. Please consider supporting Ottawa’s application security community. Sponsorship is a great way to help make the event accessible, welcoming, and valuable for everyone attending. Interested organizations will receive recognition as an event sponsor. Please contact us directly if you would like more information. For the Community. By the Community. #OWASP #Ottawa #OWASPO...

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  🚨 OWASP Ottawa September 2026 Meetup with Katie McMillan and Robert Babaev 🚨 Open Source Software is Federally Included in Canada with Katie McMillan -and- Can You Not? How to Avoid Destroying Prod with Agent Permissions with Robert Babaev #OWASP #Ottawa #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #AppSec #Tech https://www.meetup.com/owasp-ottawa/events/316486027/

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  🚨 #OWASP #Ottawa September 2026 #Meetup with Katie McMillan and Robert Babaev 🚨 Open Source Software is Federally Included in Canada with Katie McMillan -and- Can You Not? How to Avoid Destroying Prod with Agent Permissions with Robert Babaev https://www.meetup.com/owasp-ottawa/events/316486027/ #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #AppSec #Tech

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  Special thanks to Robert Babaev and Katie McMillan for speaking at the #OWASP #Ottawa September meetup. Thank you to the volunteers who helped make this happen and a special thanks to UofO Engineering for providing an excellent venue.

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  On behalf of #OWASP #Ottawa, a huge thank you to Mark Cimon and the Cimon Real Estate Team for supporting OWASP’s 25th Anniversary event at OWASP Ottawa Day! Information and tickets: https://github.com/OWASP-Ottawa/OWASPOttawaDay2026 #OWASP #Ottawa #OWASPOttawa2026 #AppSec #Cybersecurity #Community

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  On behalf of OWASP Ottawa, a huge thank you to Professor Guy-Vincent Jourdan, the uOttawa | Faculty of Engineering | Faculté de génie Team and the UofO IBM CyberRange for supporting OWASP’s 25th Anniversary event at OWASP Ottawa Day! Your generosity makes it possible for us to bring together the Ottawa security community for a full day of workshops, mentoring sessions, and talks. Events like this only happen because people like Professor Guy-Vincent Jourdan and organizations like University of...

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  We are pleased to announce that Kayode Olabisi, FCIB will be speaking at #OWASP #Ottawa Day 2026 with: "Your LLM App Passed the Checklist. Now What?" If the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs provides risks this talk focuses on where controls belong. Using prompt injection, sensitive data disclosure, and supply chain risk as examples, it maps each to practical enforcement points across the application, policy layer, and model provider. 📅 October 17, 2026 ℹ️ Information: https://github.co...

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  #OWASP #Ottawa is pleased to announce that Alexander Rudolph, PhD will be speaking at OWASP Ottawa Day 2026 with his presentation: “Canadian Digital Sovereignty in a Zero-Trust World: Unpacking Socio-Economic Dimensions of Digital Sovereignty” Digital sovereignty is no longer just about where data is hosted. Alexander will examine how foreign legal, technological, and economic dependencies affect Canada’s sovereignty, including the implications of the U.S. CLOUD Act, Microsoft’s GDID, and Can...

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  Save the date: Saturday October 17th. #OWASP #Ottawa is pleased to announce a day of learning, community, and mentorship to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the OWASP Foundation and the OWASP Ottawa Chapter’s selection of one of the top chapters in a constellation of over 130 Chapters. This will be a free _and_ ticketed event. Details on tickets, speakers, and other details will be made available soon. For the community. By the community. #OWASPOttawaDay2026 #Security hashtag#appsec #Itsec...

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  OWASP Ottawa would like to extend its gratitude to Rodrigo Rocha for an insightful presentation on their topic, "Threat Modeling in Practice" at our April 2026 meetup! Rodrigo laid out the basics of Threat Modeling to a packed room and explained the importance of performing threat modeling for development teams. Not only that, he walked us through a practical example of the threat modeling process for a mock healthcare web application. Thank you once again, Rodrigo! 👏 If...

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  🎊 Sponsor Appreciation Post - @zaproxy 🎊 OWASP Ottawa is a community-driven, volunteer-run organization that aims to bring the cyber community in Ottawa together. These events are often made possible by the generosity of our sponsors, who sponsor the venue, food, beverages, and SWAG. @zaproxy sponsored the pizzas for our April 2026 meetup! This generosity was greatly appreciated by OWASP Ottawa and the attendees. 🔗: https://www.zaproxy.org/ #owasp #ottawa #zap #cybersecurity #community

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  #OWASP #Ottawa is proud to announce that Software Secured is our May Meetup Pizza Sponsor. Thank you for supporting our local OWASP Chapter. 🍕 👍 🙏 #appsec #infosec www.softwaresecured.com

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  ‪OWASP Ottawa‬ ‪@owaspottawa.bsky.social‬ · 2m 🚨 OWASP Ottawa May 2026 Meetup - with Jainil Malaviya and Kira Evans Kira will speak about the power of volunteering, building connections, and taking action with the Ada Sisterhood. Jainil Malaviya how a malware analyst would approach the self-replicating worm called Shai-Hulud 📍 Location: 150 Louis-Pasteur Private, University of Ottawa, Room 117 📅 Date: May 20, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM EST - Arrival, networking, & pizza! 🍕 6:30 PM EST -...

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  #OWASP #Ottawa meetup today 📍 Location: 150 Louis-Pasteur Private, University of Ottawa, Room 117 📅 Date: May 20, 2026 ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM EST - Arrival, networking, & pizza! 🍕 6:30 PM EST - Technical Talks #appsec #infosec #cyber

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  Kira or the Ada Sisterhood speaking at #OWASP #Ottawa May 2026

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  Jainil introduces malware analysis at #OWASP #Ottawa May 2026