Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
A ransomware attack runs in three stages: access, activation and demand. Here is what happens in each, and where a defender has the best chance to stop it.
A ransom payment is a legal, financial and operational decision. These are the questions to settle first, and the reporting duties that may follow.
Rank threats by likelihood times impact. OWASP scores each factor 0 to 9, averages them, and maps the result to low, medium, high or critical severity.
You cannot drill everything. Score scenarios on likelihood, impact and how well you could recover today, then rehearse the highest gaps first.
find and find_by escape input, but where with a string, execute and find_by_sql need placeholders. Safe and unsafe Active Record patterns side by side.
How strong parameters stop mass assignment in Rails, what expect adds over permit, and why permit! allows future attributes you have not written yet.
Three Rails mistakes that turn a request parameter into a file read or an open redirect, and the fixes the Rails security guide recommends for each one.
Rotating secret_key_base invalidates sessions, signed and encrypted cookies and Active Storage files. When to do it and how to keep secrets in credentials.
Call reset_session after a successful Rails login, keep only an ID in the cookie session, expire sessions on the server and force SSL. The why behind each.
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