April 8, 2008
Omar Sherin, from Q-CERT's Critical Infrastructure Protection team, has announced that the Qatar chapter of OWASP is now operational, and he invites anyone interested in the problem of web application security in Qatar to subscribe to the OWASP-Qatar mailing list.
In addition, Mr. Sherin announced that the first meeting of OWASP-Qatar will be held on May 22, 2008, at the CMU-Q facilities in Education City. The meeting will be devoted to a discussion of the projects that OWASP is working on and the services that OWASP provides.
OWASP is an international organization dedicated to improving information security at the application layer by considering all the dimensions of the problem: people, process, and technology. The organization works to create freely available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in support of application security.