OWASP Vancouver
Welcome
Welcome to the OWASP Vancouver chapter home page. We are located in the beautiful province of British Columbia, on the West Coast of Canada.
Our mission is to enrich Vancouver’s application security community. We hope you can join us in accomplishing that.
Upcoming meetings on MeetupCheck out our meetings on Meetup and come along to learn and connect with other local security folk - we'd love to meet you! |
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Share your knowledge as a SpeakerWe're always looking for speakers for our meetings, so whether you have a 5 minute or hour-long talk, let us know by sharing the details via our Speaker form: https://forms.gle/thuaQHMzxumG6Wxy6 |
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Join our Slack ChannelJoin the conversation in our #owasp-vancouver channel on the MARS Community Slack Workspace! If you're not already there, click here to join. |
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Connect with our LinkedIn GroupLearn about our upcoming meetings and other news in our LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14485841/ |
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Our 2025 Supporters
We would like to thank the following companies for providing us with space, pizza and pop, and helping us with our mission to enrich Vancouver’s application security community.
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Events
Our monthly sessions take place on the 3rd Thursday of each month. We also host one off events and workshops around town.
Upcoming Meetup Events
Watch Online
Subscribe to the OWASP Vancouver YouTube channel where you can check out live streams of upcoming sessions as well as archives of previous sessions.
Past Events
You can find the full list of our past events here and here.
| Date | Title | Materials |
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| 2025/06/19 | The Secret Life of Malicious Packages by Megg Sage | Slides |
| 2020/08/20 | XXEs in Golang are Surprisingly Hard by Eric Payne | Slides |
| 2020/08/20 | Have you heard of Samy Kamkar? by Mrigakshi Goel | Slides Demo |
| 2020/08/20 | Getting your career started in web app testing by Lalithya Malyala | Slides |
| 2020/08/20 | The Evolution of Authentication by Andy Li | Slides |
| 2020/08/20 | Insufficient Logging & Monitoring by Sofia Chang | Slides |
| 2020/07/16 | Detect Complex Code Patterns Using Semantic Grep by Drew Dennison | Slides |
| 2020/07/16 | Open API Economy - Managing Security and Compliance Risks by Baljeet Malhotra | Slides |
| 2020/06/18 | CloudSec Fundamentals for AppSec Professionals by Pablo Vidal | Slides |
| 2020/06/18 | GraphQL Security by Don Burks | Slides |
| 2020/05/22 | Exploiting and Preventing Deserialization Vulnerabilities by Wesley Wineberg | Slides |
| 2020/05/22 | Cryptography 101 by Brodie McRae | Slides |
| 2020/04/23 | Design Patterns for Protecting Sensitive Data in Event-Driven Apps by Sasha Jolich | Slides |
| 2020/03/05 | Open Sesame: Hacking like a boss using broken authentication by Thomas Hughes | |
| 2020/03/05 | Building a Validator For SaaS Provider's Reason for Accessing Customer Data by Jack Cha | Slides |
| 2020/02/20 | Exploit your way through vulnerabilities, and learn application security concepts (hands on workshop) by Security Innovation | Slides |
| 2020/01/23 | How to leverage static code analysis in your CICD pipelines for continuous code quality by Dana Epp | Slides |
| 2020/01/23 | Attacking and Securing JWT by Amiran Alavidze | Slides |
Speakers
We welcome speakers of all level! You don’t have to be a pro to talk at one of our events, but we do ask that you talk be related to an application security domain and you provide value to attendees. To be a speaker, simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the our chapter lead with details of what OWASP project, independent research or related application security topic you would like to present on.
Participation
The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) is a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the security of software. All of our projects, tools, documents, forums, and chapters are free and open to anyone interested in improving application security.
Chapters are led by local leaders in accordance with the Chapter Leader Handbook. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online donation button.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate in our Projects, Local Chapters, Events, Online Groups, and Community Slack Channel. We especially encourage diversity in all our initiatives. OWASP is a fantastic place to learn about application security, to network, and even to build your reputation as an expert. We also encourage you to be become a member or consider a donation to support our ongoing work.
Sponsorship
As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button.
Use the Donate button above to donate to this chapter or become a local chapter supporter.