[May 5] Remote - Vulnerabilities with Emoji; Access Control for Staging

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Talks commence at 6.30pm.

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The Sydney Identity and Security Meetup is an informal evening open to all. We value diversity and operate a strict code of conduct, for the comfort of all our members.

## Expressive Security: Vulnerabilities with Emoji -- Katie McLaughlin,

Emoji are an interesting beast. Once an obscure part of the Unicode standard, they now saturate our systems to a degree that there are some... interesting side effects. Follow along as we discover how some systems do not like emoji, which systems can handle the odd non-standard character, and if we can find any security vulnerabilities only using the humble smiley-face. By the end of this talk, you will appreciate how complex human expression is, and why ensuring unicode compatibility will help your systems.

Katie (@glasnt) has worn many different hats over the years. She has been a software developer for many languages, systems administrator for multiple operating systems, and speaker on many different topics.
When she’s not changing the world, she enjoys cooking, making tapestries, and seeing just how well various application stacks handle emoji.

## IP Allow lists suck: Secure your staging environments in a 0 trust network with Cloudflare workers -- Klee Thomas

Protecting your staging environment with an IP address allow list is becoming more and more unrealistic in the age of remote working. Why would you require that your employees are on a VPN so that they can do their job? Why would you require that your partner companies' employees all have to use a limited set of addresses? Implementing a solution that allows access to staging in a zero-trust environment is actually not all that hard at all. Once it’s in place you’ll be able to grant and revoke access to your staging environments on a per user basis.
In this talk, I’ll take you through protecting your staging environment in a zero-trust world using Cloudflare Workers and Auth0.

Klee is a Software Developer and organiser of the Newcastle Coders Group. He is an Agile, Clean Code and Craftsmanship advocate who loves to talk about what we can do to build better quality, maintainable software. Outside of software development fan of Martial Arts, Netflix and spending time with his wife and cats.

## Sponsors

This meetup is supported by Auth0 and Snyk. We are grateful to Microsoft Reactor for providing a venue for the in-person event ❤️