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Secure Your Node.js Web Application
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Secure Your Node.js Web Application

by Karl Duuna
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
232 pages
5h 8m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Sun Tzu

Chapter 9Set Up Access Control

In the previous chapters we set up authentication and sessions. We now know who is logged in and who is not. That’s not enough; you don’t want me to be able to see your information just because I’m logged into the same application. We need to be more specific, and for that we have to set up access control.

Access control defines and enforces the relationship between users and their privileges so that only the right users can access certain things in the application. In this chapter, we start with a refresher about the main access control methodologies and ...

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