This Tuesday, the Western MASS .NET Users Group Presents: Threat Modeling for Web Applications by Robert Hurlbut Threat modeling is a security engineering technique used to help identify threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures that could affect an application. You can use threat modeling to help shape your application's design, meet your company's security objectives, and reduce risk. This talk will discuss specific ways threat modeling techniques can be applied to the design and development of web applications. Also, tools to help with this design process will demonstrated. Robert Hurlbut is an independent software architect/developer and consultant and owner of Hurlbut Consulting, Inc. He is also a Microsoft MVP for Security Development. Robert specializes in application security, distributed architectures and database architecture and development. He has spoken at industry conferences, including WIN-DEV, New England Code Camp, Heartland Developers Conference, DevTeach and VSLive!. He has a .NET blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/rhurlbut. Meeting Details Tuesday, March 6 at 6:00 PM This meeting will be held at the Atalasoft, Inc. office in Easthampton, MA. Click here for a map. Directions to Atalasoft, Inc.: >From the South Travel Interstate 91 North, take Exit 17B (Easthampton). Follow Route 141 to Easthampton. At the foot of the mountain, turn right onto East St. Follow for approx. 2.3 miles. Turn left on to Ferry St. Follow to the end. Take a left onto Pleasant St. Go approx 3/10 of a mile, Eastworks will be on your left at 116 Pleasant St. Enter the main entrance and take the stairs or elevator to the 3rd floor. The Atalasoft office is just past the Eastworks office on the left, Suite 321 >From the North Travel Interstate 91 South; take Exit 18 (Northampton). Take a right at the bottom of the ramp. Follow route 5 to Easthampton. Turn right onto East St. Follow for approx. 1.5 miles. Turn right on to Ferry St. Follow to the end. Take a left onto Pleasant St. Go approx 3/10 of a mile, Eastworks will be on your left at 116 Pleasant St. Enter the main entrance and take the stairs or elevator to the 3rd floor. The Atalasoft office is just past the Eastworks office on the left, Suite 321. (if you miss East St. and end up in the town of Easthampton, follow signs for Rt. 10 north, and take a right at the rotary onto Pleasant St. Eastworks will be on your right.) If you have questions, please direct them to Jami Albro-Fisher (413-536-5989) User Group Leader, Western Mass .NET Users Group