December 2010
Intermediate to advanced
363 pages
12h 21m
English
book
Pro PHP Security: From Application Security Principles to the Implementation of XSS Defenses, Second Edition
by Chris Snyder, Michael Southwell, Thomas Myer
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C H A P T E R 11
Preventing Data Loss
After considering at length in Chapter 10 who our users are and how we can permit them to use our applications securely, we turn now to a series of chapters in which we discuss permitting secure use of our applications by developers and maintainers. We begin by focusing on protecting your PHP application's data.
When considering the security of an application, we normally think about keeping secret data from being revealed, protecting application resources from abuse, or keeping out unwanted users. But the overall integrity of an application's data is important, too. Whether considered secret or not, your ...