How to secure your Heroku application
Lou Bichard
I’m guessing you’re here because you’ve got an application up on Heroku, and you’re wondering what steps you need to take to keep it secure. If so, then awesome—you’re in…
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What NIST recommends for cybersecurity and applications
Justin Reynolds
Cybersecurity is a growing concern for businesses of all sizes and industries—and for good reason. As cybersecurity threats and attacks increase each year and more businesses move into software, the…
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…
5 security best practices for Java
Eric
When it came along in the mid-1990s, Java promised a revolution in programming languages. At the time, a great deal of business programming took place in C or C++. Anyone…
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…
Kubernetes security best practices
Christian Meléndez
There’s no doubt that Kubernetes adoption has increased a lot since its first release. But, as Ian Coldwater said in his talk about abusing the Kubernetes defaults: Kubernetes is insecure…
Top 10 security best practices for MongoDB
Casey Dunham
The world is becoming increasingly aware of the massive amounts of data floating around the internet. Not surprisingly, many people have concerns about this. These concerns have led to a lot…
How to fully leverage your pentest
Jb
Before co-founding Sqreen, I spent years stressing applications both from the outside (as a security consultant) and from the inside (as part of Apple’s Red Team). As a result, I’m…
10 Best Practices to Build Secure Applications
Matthew
Last updated in May, 2019 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…