OWASP Ottawa<p>📢 OWASP Ottawa August 2025 Meetup 📢</p><p>OWASP Ottawa is back from our summer break! Join us in person at the University of Ottawa for our next OWASP Ottawa meetup on August 20, 2025, where we’ll dive into not one, but two timely and impactful talks at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, and real-world application security.</p><p>📅 Date: August 20, 2025<br>⏰ Time: 6:00 PM EST – Arrival, setup & pizza 🍕<br> 6:30 PM EST – Technical Talks<br>📍 Location: 150 Louis-Pasteur Private, University of Ottawa, Room 117</p><p>🎙️ Talk 1: "Doing More with Less: An Adaptive, Label-Efficient Approach to Fraud Detection from Day One" with Bahar Afshar<br> 👥 Speaker: Bahar Afshar, Master’s in Computer Science candidate with specialization in AI at University of Ottawa<br>Discover an innovative approach on how to detect financial fraud using adaptive, label-efficient AI approaches, even when labeled, fraudulent data is scarce. A must-see for those in finance, security, and AI research.</p><p>🎙️ Talk 2: "Beyond APIs: MCP Security for AI Integrations" with Harsh Makwana<br> 👥 Speaker: Harsh Makwana, M.Eng, Aplication Security Consultant at Software Secured<br>Model Context Protocol (MCP) is becoming the standard for LLM integration with external tools, but this increasingly fast adoption rate is coming at the cost of missed security challenges. Learn the security strategies necessary to build hardened AI agents.</p><p>📺 Can’t join in person? We’ll livestream on YouTube on our channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@OWASP_Ottawa" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/@OWASP_Ottawa</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>🔗 RSVP now: <a href="https://www.meetup.com/owasp-ottawa/events/310273515/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">meetup.com/owasp-ottawa/events</span><span class="invisible">/310273515/</span></a></p><p>Come learn, network, and grab some pizza 🍕 with Ottawa’s cybersecurity community!<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OWASP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OWASP</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ottawa</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Networking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Networking</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AISecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AISecurity</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FraudDetection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FraudDetection</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a></p>