
Frontend security 101
Dave Berner Co-founder & VP of Engineering Kinde
Dave is a frontend-leaning generalist living in Byron Bay, Australia. He has been coding since 1998 when spacer gifs, marquees and blink tags were the “new hotness”. He favours fundamentals over frameworks and simplicity over clever code.
He is the co-creator of, Roast, a lightweight, unorthodox, server-rendered architecture for programmers that are frustrated with the over-complexity of the current development landscape.
Frontend security 101
Websites are hacked daily at a frighteningly increasing rate. In the wake of big brands like Optus and Medibank being breached, people are starting to take security more seriously. It’s easy to assume that security is a backend concern but the truth is it’s something we all need to be thinking about with every line of code we write and all the PRs we review. In this talk I’ll run through some simple steps you can take to start upping your Frontend security game.