December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 16m
English
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Chapter 1
Application Fortification
Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
—Sun Tzu in The Art of War
The recipes in this section walk you through the process of preparing your web application for the production network battlefront.
The first step is application fortification, in which you analyze the current web application that you must protect and enhance its defensive capabilities.