Part II: Secure Coding Made Easy: 5 Tips to Integrate Security into Development

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You’ve heard it before: it’s time to get serious about security. Cyber threats aren’t slowing down, which means security must become a critical part of your job as a developer. But it’s not always easy to fix your code during or after release to production, especially when you have to stop and search for knowledge resources. That’s where secure coding best practices and fine-tuned training meet to set you up for success.

In part one of this two-part guide, we broke down best practices like parameterizing your queries to avoid SQL injection and encoding your data to address the three main classes of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). For part two, we’re diving into five additional tips and best practices, from protecting data to leveraging existing frameworks securely.


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