Viral at Mozilla: MozConnect with OWASP(Open Web Application Security Project)

OWASP Team - Mozilla Team and Participants

I am viral parmar (https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/VeerSkyfire/) technology enthusiast, cyber security researcher, proud Mozilla club captain (Infinite Defence) and OWASP Chapter Leader.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a worldwide not-for-profit charitable organization focused on improving the security of software. Our mission is to make software security visible, so that individuals and organizations are able to make informed decisions. OWASP is in a unique position to provide impartial, practical information about AppSec to individuals, corporations, universities, government agencies and other organizations worldwide. Operating as a community of like-minded professionals, OWASP issues software tools and knowledge-based documentation on application security.

As a OWASP Chapter Leader we want aware people about cyber security and ethical hacking to involve as many as people we can to aware them about privacy, cyber crimes,secure browsing , application security , open source tool and technologies to students, Working professionals, individuals, Researchers.

Guest and Speaker of the Day

We held our event at Alpha College of Engineering and Technology, where more than 200 students and professional came to attend our Expert sessions. In Event we are glad to meet technology enthusiastic people. Event started with lighting the lamp which is an old ritual in India, before doing and good work, sharing knowledge or teach, lighting the lamp and pray to goddess of knowledge goddess saraswati after that we felicitated our guest and speakers of the day.

Viral Parmar OWASP Chapter Leader and Mozilla Club Captain lighting the Lamp

Session Started with Inauguration speech of Khushank Gohil on OWASP and Mozilla’s aim, agendas, planning and initiative for privacy and security worldwide.

First session taken by Jay patel on Web application Vulnerabilities. (He is known for his work of Bug Hunting who always looks for vulnerabilities existing in web application and product to keep more secured. He is experienced .NET developer and right now pursuing his masters from Victoria University Sydney and got bounty thanked from few top fortunes 500 companies.) He shown which are the bugs generally found in top multinational companies websites and how you can find it.

Jay Patel OWASP Member, Sydney, Australia

Second Session taken by Vishal Patel on Secure Coding. (He have 5+ years of experience in PHP and JAVA with the excellent knowledge core programming and database management as well. He sharpen his skills in secure coding and other different languages.) Vishal shown that how to secure web application from getting hacked and how can do secure coding so that website data cannot compromised to hackers. He shown the script and code to prevent XSS, SQL injection, broken authentication and many more type of attacks.

Third session taken by Mehul Patel on Privacy and security. (An Open Source Enthusiast, Linux geeky, maker by heart and also Head of Mozilla Gujarat. He is Mozilla Reps, Regional Ambassador Lead from India! Community Buider, SUMO Contributors, Recruit & guide new FSA's. he is part of Mozilla India's Policy and Advocacy Task Force & Mozilla Learning Network.) He taken a very Interactive session on Privacy and security by involving student in it by playing a game on data privacy. Student actually enjoyed a lot.

Mehul Patel, Reps and RAL with Students

Forth session taken by Falgun Rathod on Career in cyber security. (Chapter Leader of OWASP Gandhinagar, 7+ year’s experience in Cyber Security and Investigation. Conducted 70+ seminar and workshop in different Universities and colleges across India. Acknowledge by Mumbai cyber cell, Ahmedabad cyber cell, kerala cyber cell and BSF. He is listed in top 10 ethical hackers and cyber cops of India by India Today and silicon India magazine.) He shows the structure of Cyber Security companies and how many security expert’s required all over the world till 2019. What is the importance of cyber security in Business and other sectors.

Five Session taken by Viral Parmar on OWASP top 10 Vulnerabilities list. (Chapter leader of OWASP Gandhinagar and also Founder & CEO of ComExpo Cyber Security. 2+ years of experience in cyber security and cyber crime investigation. Core contributor in Mozilla Gujarat and also a Mozilla club captain (Infinite Defence) in Mozilla. He Conducted 30+ seminar and workshop on Cyber Security. He is working with Gujarat cyber cell and Mumbai cyber cell as a cyber-security consultant). He conducted session on OWASP top 10 vulnerability list which are International standards for Web application Security and recognised by each and every top multinational companies, organization, individual and governments, in which he shows SQL-injection attack, Broken authentication, XSS,IDOR(Insure Data Object References), Security Misconfiguration, Sensitive data exposure, missing function level access control, CSRF, using component with known vulnerability and unvalidated redirects.

In the end we have very interactive session of Q&A with students and professionals with that we ended our event on 16^th July 2016