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What are key considerations when building behind the firewall web apps?

15th September 2013

My answer to What are key considerations when building behind the firewall web apps? on Quora

CSRF and XSS are still important: don’t leave any security vulnerabilities which might allow an evil website out on the internet to run JavaScript that steals data from your behind-the-firewall web application.

Posted 15th September 2013 at 3:24 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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