What weâre about
The OWASP Melbourne Chapter aims to provide a welcoming environment for developers, testers, DevOps engineers and security professionals alike. To improve their product security knowledge, skills and to network with other like minded professionals.
# Update 2024
We're hitting pause on the "lecture-style" talks for this year, to experiment with a more intimate and practitioner focused "Lean Coffee"-styled meetups. See the meetup event description for more details.
If you'd like to contact us, you can email the chapter leadership at "melbourne-chapter[AT]owasp.org".
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# About talks - 2024
There are no scheduled "lecture"-style meetups. However, if you feel like you have an awesome talk to share, and can fill it with either 1x1hr or 2x30mins; that is genuine knowledge sharing, and not perceived as sales/marketing/showcasing a product, we can make it happen. Simply attend a meetup, and speak with an organiser on how we can make that happen. You will have to provide us with your talk title, description, talk outline and your bio.
Talks are focused on building secure web and mobile applications including DevSecOps practices for fast Agile software delivery environments. Topics include but are not limited to any of the following areas:
- Secure Software Development Lifecycle
- Secure Code Review
- Security Architecture
- Application Security Testing
- Web Application Security
- API security
- DevSecOps
- Cloud Security
- Mobile Application Security, etc.
To be a speaker at the next Melbourne Chapter event, simply message the local chapter leader on Meetup with details of the talk.
Also, don't forget to follow us on Twitter ( @OWASPmelbourne ), and Mastodon ( @owaspmelb@infosec.exchange ). We're on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/@owaspmelb .
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)Â is an open-source, not for profit association, made up of corporations, public sector organisations and individuals from around the world. Providing free, vendor-neutral and practical application security guidelines. OWASP is the de facto standard-setting body for web application security. OWASP has a strong open and global community with over 45,000 participants, and more than 125 organisational and academic supporters. With 200 local chapters across 6 continents in 117 countries.
Last, but not least, we are all volunteers. If you like what we do and would like to show your support - please consider donating or becoming an OWASP member.
If you're reaching out to speak/sponsor an event, please email
melbourne-chapter[at]owasp.orgÂ
Thank you.
Upcoming events (1)
See all- OWASP Melbourne - May 2025 MeetupBelles Hot Chicken Melbourne CBD, Melbourne
G'day all,
It was great to see new faces last month. Thank you to those that attended.
In our last meetup, attendees voted for Belles Hot Chicken Melbourne CBD as our location for next month. On 7th May 2025 6PM, there we shall meet.
đ¨There's NO BOOKING. If you're the first to arrive, please grab a table for the group and post a picture of the table's location in the comments of this meetup event. We'll use it to locate each other. (If you don't see a post, you're lucky first. Please grab us a table and post a pic. đ)
Please remember to update your RSVP if you can no longer attend. Even if it's just 30 minutes prior. It'll help whomever that arrives first know how big a table to get. We will take note of no-shows, and to make sure we've got space for those that do actually attend, your RSVP may be deprioritised for future events.
If you're having trouble finding us, send a message to Dan on Signal.
See you there.
More details on the format, and what to expect below:
The Practitioner's Roundtable
It's a monthly meetup, for AppSec/ProdSec practitioners to participate discussing AppSec/ProdSec topics and share knowledge. There's no speakers, or sponsors; just a facilitator, with the expectation that you'll join the conversations. Broadly, the idea is that you're swinging by after work, for a regular catch-up with our peers over dinner (with F&B at your own cost) with a known format.
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So, what's happening?
The format:- At 6pm all attendees arrive, and order (and pay for) their own meals - we'll do the rest while waiting for the meals to arrive and as we eat.
- All attendees write down on a card 1-2 AppSec/ProdSec related topics they'd like to discuss.
- We'll all each cast 3 votes on the cards we'd like to discuss.
- We'll sort the cards, and discuss the topics with the top 3-4 highest votes. Starting with the topic with the highest votes.
- After 5(?) minutes, we all decide if we'd like to continue or move on to the next topic.
- If we continue, after 15(?) minutes, we all move on to the next topic of discussion.
- At 7pm, we wrap up and officially end. Before everyone leaves, we vote on the next restaurant that we'll meet at.
This is inspired by Lean Coffee, and intended for participants to be collaborators in the conversation focused on AppSec & ProdSec topics. You are expected to participate in the AppSec/ProdSec conversations constructively if you attend. This isn't the place for BizDev focused conversations.
For the location selection, here are the considerations we work with:
- It must be within 1 "city block" of the Melbourne Free Tram Zone.
- The typical price for a whole meal (without alcohol) should be under $50 per person.
- It must allow individual orders - you'd be ordering and paying for your own meal.
- It will need to have seating space for the group to say, just walk-in to the restaurant ( this may change if it grows beyond 10 regular attendees ).
- It must be quiet enough for us to have meaningful conversations.
- It must not be a restaurant we've been to in the past 6 months. (Just to keep things fresh )
Also, although we use the word ârestaurantâ this is used broadly to mean food establishment - if weâre all keen on hitting up a decent kebab place, that works. As a courtesy to the venue, there's an expectation that you'd order something there.
