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 17
Final Recommendations
Now that we've covered lots of security considerations, it's time for some final thoughts and recommendations. Most of this chapter is filled with advice and thinking that is only tangentially related to security, but important nonetheless to keeping a secure environment.
We'll cover topics that are easy to miss. For one, there are a whole legion of issues related to secure shared hosting, and since most PHP developers will find themselves hosting an app on shared hosting, they're worth considering. Second, maintaining separate development and production servers, each with its own security settings, will ...