OWASP Global AppSec EU 2026 Vienna

In security, it is important to understand the whole chain: from regulation to business risk, to requirement, to code example, to vulnerability, to test method, to tool configurations. However, so far there hasn’t been a solid way to interconnect standards, documentation, and tooling. Standards writers often work in isolation, and tooling authors rightly focus on quality results instead of comprehensive information about those results.

The open source initiative OpenCRE.org connects all these sources of information: It links topics across multiple standards, including the Top 10, ASVS, Pro-active controls, Testing guide, Cheat sheets, SAMM, SSDF, ISO27001, CSA CCMv3, CWE, CAPEC, PCI-DSS, NIST 800-53 and 63b. It further links code samples and offensive tooling configurations or rules. That way it serves as a universal translator, to connect every role involved: executive, compliance officer, procurement, architect, developer,and tester.

This talk takes you through how openCRE.org works, how we have brought all these standards together, how we used AI in a revolutionary way, and how you can benefit in your work as a manager, builder, breaker, buyer, or standard maker!

The intended audience for this talk is anyone involved with Application Security and looking for an easy-to-use guide, mapping standards to regulations to code and configurations.

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