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Upcoming Events

Austin Security Professionals Happy Hour sponsored by Pensar, September 10, 2026

When: Thursday, September 10th, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Where: Lavaca Street Bar at the Domain Northside (Rock Rose District), 11420 Rock Rose Ave #100, Austin, TX 78758.

What: The Austin Security Professionals Happy Hour is a monthly event coordinated by the Austin OWASP Chapter and sponsored by various companies. We try to meet every second Thursday of the month from January to September (but occasionally we make schedule adjustments when needed). The event is an informal social gathering of local information security professionals. If you’re involved with InfoSec or even if you have an interest, come on out for drinks, good food and conversation.

Sponsor: Pensar

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OWASP Austin Chapter Meeting September 2026

When: Tuesday, September 29th, 2026 @ 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Agenda:
11:30-11:55 – Room Opens, food is available and in-room discussions
11:55-12:05 – Chapter/OWASP info presentation
12:05-1 – Speakers Presentation

Presentation: Is Annual Compliance Dead?
For two decades, we’ve treated a passed audit as evidence of a secure company. But a point-in-time audit is a photograph: one frame, captured on one day. Your attack surface, meanwhile, is a film running every minute of the year. Adversaries do not attack on audit day; they attack on day 200, when nobody is looking. This talk argues that annual, point-in-time compliance is no longer sufficient on its own. As organizations adopt cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and modern security frameworks that increasingly emphasize continuous control operation, the assumptions underlying traditional audit models are rapidly eroding. The ground has already shifted beneath us.
We’ll explore what continuous compliance looks like in practice. Not as a massive transformation program or an expensive new platform, but as a discipline of incremental improvement: identifying a control you dread proving, automating part of its evidence collection, and building from there. Over time, a collection of honest, continuously validated controls creates assurance that neither an auditor nor an attacker can easily dispute.

Speaker: Akash Rajeev Bhatia
Akash Rajeev Bhatia is a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst specializing in governance, risk, compliance, and application security. With experience spanning security operations and cybersecurity governance, he focuses on practical approaches to improving security and compliance outcomes. Akash also completed a postgraduate program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in partnership with UT Austin and has a strong interest in applying automation and emerging technologies to cybersecurity challenges.

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LASCON 2026

Save the Dates for LASCON 2026. We will be back at Norris Conference Center with Pre-Conference Training October 27-28, 2026 and Conference October 29-30, 2026. Visit lascon.org.

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Austin Security Professionals Happy Hour - 2027 Dates Available

Interested in Sponsoring? We are currently seeking happy hour sponsors for our monthly event for 2027. Please contact Tiana Chandler if you are interested. See our Sponsorship page for information on sponsoring.

Chapter Supporters

The following are the list of OWASP Corporate Members who have generously aligned themselves with the Austin chapter, therefore contributing funds to our chapter: