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AppSec Overview/Refresher Training
Half-Day Interactive (Classroom) Training - OWASP New Zealand Day 2025
Course Details
Dates: Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Time: 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (NZST)
Instructor: John DiLeo
Course Fee: NZ $250.00 (plus GST and ticketing fees)
Registration Site: https://events.humanitix.com/owaspnz2025-training
Maximum Enrolment: 50 attendees
Course Description
This class is designed to help developers new to application security (AppSec) get up to speed quickly on, or those familiar with the concepts to update and refresh, the knowledge and skills they need to continue delivering secure code.
The topics we’ll cover during this half-day session include:
- AppSec’s role in managing risk;
- The OWASP Top Ten: 2021 - The most prevalent Web application vulnerabilities, and how to prevent them;
- Review of secure design and coding practices;
- Privacy considerations for secure development; and
- Maintaining assurance throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC).
Your Instructor
Dr. John DiLeo is Leader of the OWASP New Zealand Chapter. In his day job, John is the Application Security Lead at Gallagher Security. In a recent role, John managed the Application Security Services team at Datacom, providing support and guidance to clients in launching, managing, and maturing their enterprise software assurance programs.
Before turning to full-time roles in application security, John was active as a Java enterprise architect and Web application developer. In earlier lives, John has been a full-time professor and had specialized in developing discrete-event simulations of large distributed systems.
John is on the core team for the OWASP Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM) Project, leads the OWASP State of AppSec Survey and SAMMwise Projects, and is a member of the OWASP Education and Training Committee. Twitter: @gr4ybeard