What weāre about
Omaha jQuery MeetupFormerly known as (2009) and Omaha Front-End Web & jQuery (2011).
NebraskaJS was founded in fall of 2009 as the Omaha jQuery Meetup and was renamed in 2011 to the Omaha Front-End Web & jQuery Meetup to broaden its scope. In 2012, group leadership duties were passed on to Zach Leatherman and the group renamed to NebraskaJS as focus shifted toward JavaScript in general. Nick Nisi joined mid-2013 primarily to get more JavaScript developers to use Vim and Justin Baker joined in 2016 to continue NebraskaJS Lincoln.
Our goals:
Encourage open source/community contributions by our members. A portion of every meeting is dedicated to small lightning talks on GitHub issues that members in the community have contributed to/closed out (no issue too small!).
Sharing workflow and useful tools. Small coding exercises dedicated to showing how others work can expose useful tips and tricks to separate the wheat from the chaff in development tooling.
All presentations are recorded and published online, in the hopes that it will improve the quality of presentations and offer nice exposure and incentive to present.
We seek to bring together the developer and designer community in and around Omaha and cover interesting topics relevant to front-end web development. Come join us for an informative event and a great community!
Organizers Emeritus
ā¢ Jonathan Sharp (Omaha 2009ā2012)
ā¢ Andrew Wirick (Omaha 2009ā2012)
ā¢ Eli Perelman (Omaha 2009ā2012)
ā¢ Blaine Kasten (Lincoln 2014ā2016)
ā¢ Cole Voss (Lincoln 2015ā2016)
Upcoming events (1)
See all- Strengthening Web Application Security - REGISTER ON LUMAImproving, Douglas, NE
WE'RE MOVING TO LUMA - Please register here: https://lu.ma/n34v0uzp
In the coming months, we'll be moving from Meetup to Luma, following our friends at Omaha Java. It's a platform that is easier to use, doesn't lock in the community, and provides more of the features we need. We'll keep posting events here until our subscription expires, but please check out our events page on Luma and register there!
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This month, Tyler Sanderson will educate us on Strengthening Web Application Security: Understanding Threats, Defenses, and Best Practices!
5:30pm: Food + hang out
6:00pm: The good stuff
7:30pm: Continued discussion š»Speaker: Tyler Sanderson
Talk Summary
Web applications are integral to modern business operations, but they remain prime targets for malicious actors. This session will provide an overview of web application security, beginning with the OWASP Top Ten threatsāa globally recognized benchmark for application security risks. It will delve into common vulnerabilities such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), and SQL Injection, exploring how these vulnerabilities are exploited and the strategies to defend against them. The talk will also cover best practices for secure application configuration, including enforcing Content Security Policies (CSP), as well as tools like static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST) and dependency scanning solutions to proactively identify and address vulnerabilities.
