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Security analysis of the top 1000 SaaS companies: we still have a long way to go

Josh
March 20, 2019

SaaS has become the de facto standard for most B2B tools and B2C applications. As a result, more and more personal and business-critical data is entrusted to third parties who…

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8 security best practices for SaaS startup CTOs

Jb
March 13, 2019

As the technology decision makers for SaaS startups, we CTOs are a burdened lot. We need to constantly balance agility, security, and regulatory compliances. Figuring out the right balance of…

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Single-page applications need better auditing

Vladimir
March 5, 2019

tl;dr Most web pentesting tools currently focus on backend exploitation (such as SQL injections, Reflected or Stored XSS, …). However, in recent years, frontend parts of applications have gained in…

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How I switched from Ruby to Python

Benoit
January 30, 2019

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…

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How Radix trees made blocking IPs 5000 times faster

Émile-Hugo
January 15, 2019

To most people, what you learn during a CS degree doesn’t help much in your day to day job. That being said, you sometimes run in a problem which could…

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Python

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PyParis 2018

Janis
December 6, 2018

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…

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Giving a voice to Jira

Oscar Baracos
December 3, 2018

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…

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Python

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Streaming data with Amazon Kinesis

Bartosz Telenczuk
September 10, 2018

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…

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WebAssembly vs. the world. Should you use WebAssembly?

Vladimir
August 21, 2018

WebAssembly is known for its speed capabilities and this article will put it to the test to better understand what are the best applications to start using WebAssembly today. We…

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ESLint backdoor: revoke all the tokens

Vladimir
July 12, 2018

Tl;dr [EDIT 2018-07-16] The official ESLint post-mortem has been released. NPM already revoked all tokens at once so you probably don’t need to do this yourself. A backdoor was introduced…

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