10 things you can do as a developer to make your app secure: #9 Start with Requirements

To build a secure system, you should start thinking about security from the beginning. Legal and Compliance Constraints First, make…

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10 things you can do as a developer to make your app secure: #8 Leverage other people’s Code (Carefully)

As you can see from the previous posts, building a secure application takes a lot of work. One short cut…

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10 things you can do as a developer to make your app secure: #7 Logging and Intrusion Detection

This is part 7 of a series of posts on the OWASP Top 10 Proactive Development Controls: 10 things you…

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10 things you can do as a developer to make your app secure: #6 Protect Data and Privacy

This is part 6 of a series of posts on the OWASP Top 10 Proactive Development Controls. Regulations – and…

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10 things you can do as a developer to make your app secure: #5 Authentication Controls

This is part #5 of a series of posts on the OWASP Top 10 Proactive Development Controls: In the previous…

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10 things you can do to make your app secure: #4 Access Control

This is #4 in a series on the OWASP Top 10 Proactive Controls: 10 things that developers can do to…

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10 things you can do to make your app secure: #3 Validate Input

This is part #3 of a series of posts on the OWASP Top 10 Proactive Development Controls. Your first line…

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10 things you can do to make your app secure: #2 Encoding Data

This is part #2 of a series on the OWASP Top 10 Proactive Controls, the 10 things you can do…

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SQL Developer’s “Securely” Encrypted Passwords

Recently, while at one of our customers’ site, the customer and I needed to get access to a database. On…

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