Building secure applications: Top 10 application security best practices
Matthew
Last updated in April, 2021 Recently, here on the blog, I’ve been talking about security and secure applications quite a bit. It’s both a fascinating topic as well as an…
OWASP Top 10 Cheat Sheet
In recent times, hacks seem to be increasingly prevalent, not to mention severe. What’s more, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a small player or a big name corporation such as…
Detecting and blocking bad bots
If there’s one constant online in recent months, it’s that security is a must. Whether because of significant security breaches, such as at Yahoo!; because of concerns of state-sponsored privacy…
What is SecDevOps and why should you care?
If you’ve been actively involved in software development in recent years, then you should be aware of the term “DevOps.” The name and its practices have been increasingly adopted in…
Docker Security Best Practices
Docker accelerates your development and deployment cycles, letting you push code out faster than ever before. But it also comes with an unexpected set of security implications that you should…
Securing Legacy Applications
Legacy applications. If there’s one thing that developers agree on, it’s that they don’t want to work on them. If not that, it’s that they’re often, by default, assumed to…
Getting Developers to Care More About Security
Security, it’s a topic that’s become near and dear to my heart as a software developer. But that doesn’t mean that every developer shares my perspective. What’s more, we’re a…
4 Essential Steps to Protect Web Applications
In our last article on OWASP Top 10 cheat sheet for startup CTOs we discussed the anatomy of application vulnerabilities and saw how CTOs can secure their applications against the OWASP top 10.…
Security In 2016 – The Year In Review
As 2017 is already off to a flying start, it’s a good time to stop and take a look back at some of the security breaches and issues that happened…
Why Web Application Firewalls fail to protect web applications
If there’s one constant in the modern era, besides the near-ubiquity of technology — or perhaps because of it — it’s security. Actually, it’s security breaches. In the last 12…