On November 25-26, 2025, the German OWASP Day takes place at the Radisson Blu Conference Hotel in Düsseldorf. SCHUTZWERK has been a regular sponsor of this independent conference for application security since 2016, bringing together security experts, developers, and IT decision-makers.
Tickets are still available. More information and registration: god.owasp.de/ 2025 The Conference The first day (November 25) is designed as a training day. Two workshops run in parallel in the morning: “Leveraging Browser Features for Proactive Defense” by Javan Rasokat and the “Workshop Cyber Resilience Act” by Michael Helwig.
SCHUTZWERK has long-lasting connections to Hochschule Furtwangen, Hochschule Aalen and Ulm University in order to cooperate in research and teaching topics with security focus. This includes lectures, security CTFs, master and bachelor thesis as well as research projects (e.g., the ongoing BMBF project SecForCARs in which a recent master thesis was conducted together with Ulm University). Furthermore, SCHUTZWERK regularly conducts one-day hands-on events, so-called Capture-the-flags (CTF), in which students can test their cybersecurity skills in form of a practical competition (e.
In cooperation with the University of Furtwangen, SCHUTZWERK is organizing the Hack2Improve event on the 25th November 2016, focusing on the latest IT security topics.
Hack2Improve is a hands-on event that attracts beginners as well as advanced attendees year after year. For example, they learn how to read a secure WLAN connection. Another key issue includes the basics for examining a smartphone app and the sensitive data it contains. Intermediate participants learn the forensic investigation of IT systems as well as advanced topics in the field of hacking web applications.
The 8th German OWASP Day will take place in Darmstadt on the 29th of November. SCHUTZWERK GmbH is an official sponsor of the event.
The yearly German OWASP Day conference is hosted by the OWASP German Chapter. The event features interesting talks and presentation concerning secure development, operations, test and management in the area of application security, with a focus on web applications. In addition, interdisciplinary and non-technical topics are also presented.
On 14th June 2016, the 13th Cyber Security Day took place in Leipzig. This event was organized by the Alliance for Cyber Security, an initiative of the Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik - BSI). This time the event was dedicated to the topic of "Web Application Security". Owing to the huge demand, the contents were, for the first time, specifically aimed at “engineers” as target audience.
