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Kim Maida

Kim Maida

Kim is a Developer Relations and Developer Experience leader and strategist, JS engineer, and identity and security standards stickler. She enjoys teaching, mentoring, and learning from folks in the product technology space. Kim is the Senior Director of Developer Relations at FusionAuth and is a Google Developer Expert in Identity. She loves to travel, overland cross-country, design stickers, and craft miniatures and artisan keycaps for mechanical keyboards.
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Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture
JSNation US 2025JSNation US 2025
Upcoming
Backend-for-Frontend Auth: The Secure JS App Architecture
Modern apps face significant security threats, especially for browser-based JavaScript apps. This short talk will help you understand how app architecture and auth security impact each other. You will learn the most secure, standards-based architecture pattern for implementing auth for JS apps.
securityauthentication
It’s Not Magic: Elevate Auth Security with PKCE Best Practices
Node Congress 2025Node Congress 2025
5 min
It’s Not Magic: Elevate Auth Security with PKCE Best Practices
Authorization and authentication open standards have been protecting users, apps, and resources for over a decade. That’s plenty of time for attackers to learn to exploit anti-patterns or implementation weaknesses. Learn about modern best practice for OAuth security, and keep your users and data safe in our evolving tech landscape.
best practices