Top 10 Python security best practices
Don Roche
On the sleepy island of Gozo, security isn’t a concern. Tourists can leave their bags on the beach and go off on an adventure without worrying that their belongings will…
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Developer security best practices: how to validate input data in Python
Boris
If you’re building an application that accepts user or third-party input, a crucial consideration for security is ensuring that you properly validate that input. You want to make sure that…
Developer security best practices: protecting against timing attacks
One of the great things about security is that there is always more to learn. When you’re protecting your applications and users, understanding the kinds of attacks bad actors may…
How we built V8 natively on ARM
Émile-Hugo
When Amazon released their custom Graviton processor, we knew that ARM needed to be on our radar. Although clearly a first generation product, the investment required to build such a…
How I switched from Ruby to Python
Benoit
This article is a personal experience shared by Benoit, Sqreen’s first engineer who worked on the Ruby agent and on the Python backend. Ruby, a love story Back in 2008…
PyParis 2018
Janis
At Sqreen we try to attend any conference that is related to our tech stack. To learn and interact, and, sometimes, to present. This year at PyParis 2018 we did…
Giving a voice to Jira
Oscar Baracos
The problem What if you could talk to Jira to create a ticket instead of having to interrupt what you’re doing to open a new tab, and painstakingly scroll through…
Streaming data with Amazon Kinesis
Bartosz Telenczuk
Introduction At Sqreen we use Amazon Kinesis service to process data from our agents in near real-time. This kind of processing became recently popular with the appearance of general use…
Context information storage for asyncio
Vivien
At Sqreen, we are building an agent based on dynamic instrumentation. It detects security incidents from inside an application (injections, cross-site scripting etc.) and allows users to configure actions (blocking…
Poison Packages in Python
Don Goodman-Wilson
Speeling is hard, yeah? Python quiz: What’s the difference between these two packages? urllib3 urlib3 Answer: urllib3, with two l’s is the one you meant to use. urlib3 with one…