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Security is a Mindset

Three Principles:
  • Defense in Depth - Redundant safegaurds are valuable.
  • Least Privilege - grant as little freedom as possible.
  •  Least complicated - Complexity breeds mistakes.
 (From Shiflett's Evolution of Web Security)
  Trust Nothing, Assume Nothing


Server Side Security
  •  Install Suhosin patch.
  •  Be smart about your passwords.
  •  Disable register globals, magic quotes,etc.
  •  Never run PHP/Apache/Nginx/etc as administrator.
  •  Keep up with Patches.
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