Security

Keeping Your Software Healthy: The Critical Role of Dependency Updates

April 13, 2024

Programming Project Management Sdlc Security Devops Best-Practices

Discover best practices for effective dependency management in software development and learn strategies to keep your projects secure, efficient, and free of technical debt. This comprehensive guide covers the critical importance of regularly updating dependencies, utilizing automated tools and processes to streamline dependency management, fostering a culture of proactive updates through incentives and education, and implementing organization-wide dependency management strategies at scale. Whether you’re an application developer, software architect, or engineering manager, this article provides actionable insights to help you master dependency updates and ensure your software stays healthy and high-performing.

Using Self-Signed Multi-Domain Certificates

December 31, 2017

Devops Web Security

Self-signed certificates are usually used for TLS authentication on non-production environments. We’ll discuss here how to generate proper certificate for your server.

Logging Policy

March 28, 2017

Programming Devops Security Logging

There are different points of view on how logging levels should be used in code. I will share mine.

My assumption is: “There should be no errors in logs when everything is fine.”

Secure Java Coding Best Practices

August 1, 2015

Programming Security Java Web

Making your web application flawless against security attacks is a challenge for every java developer. In this article I will briefly describe common practical development techniques that can help you to achieve it.

Secure Java Logging with Logback

July 26, 2015

Programming Security Java Logging Logback

Deploying application into secure environment adds some restrictions on logging and log management. OWASP community gives some useful recommendations.

API Authentication: Generating HMAC digest in PHP and Java

May 20, 2015

Programming Programming Java Php Security

User authentication is an important part of the web service API design. One of the common approaches is the Hash-based Message Authentication Code – HMAC. Used together with transport level security, it provides a reliable mechanizm of user authentication and message integrity validation.

Web Security Resources

May 3, 2015

Programming Web Security

Some useful links to security resources