OWASP terminates marketing agreement with RSA Conference. Board member cancels class out of protest.

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http://blogs.csoonline.com/security-industry/2914/owasp-terminates-marketing-agreement-rsa-conference-board-member-cancels-class-out-protest

By Steve Ragan
Salted Hash
CSO Online
January 09, 2014

After a heated internal debate, OWASP has canceled their co-marketing 
agreement with the RSA Conference. Related to these developments, a board 
member has canceled their scheduled class in protest of RSA's dealings 
with the NSA.

Class canceled:

In a statement on Twitter, Eoin Keary, OWASP board member, and known 
expert in software security and penetration testing, announced that he is 
cancelling his class on secure coding that was to be held next month at 
the RSA Conference.

Keary is hopeful that the class could be held elsewhere, including B-Sides 
San Francisco, a separate security conference that takes place the same 
week as the RSA Conference. However, at the time this story went to print, 
that wasn't a confirmed option.

In a statement via email, Keary told the Hash that his reasoning for 
canceling the classes were an act of conscience, and a reflection on what 
his last 10 years at OWASP has meant to him.

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