From the course: Ten Security Tips for Developers
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Encrypt everything
From the course: Ten Security Tips for Developers
Encrypt everything
- [Instructor] I remember sending client files over an unencrypted FTP connection in the early days of the modern web, and I cringe. Anyone on the network listening in, either on my end, at the ISP, or at the client end, or anywhere in between would be able to not only see everything I sent over that connection, including my username, and password, and the files themselves, but also copy it all to their computer. Thankfully, unencrypted FTP is not in common use anymore in large part because the deployment methods we use are far more advanced, and those more advanced methods include end-to-end encryption. If you ask me for one thing you can do right now to secure the things you build, the systems you build them with, yourself, and the people around you my answer is to encrypt all the things. Every time you transfer any information over any network ensure it's done over an encrypted connection. That goes for deploying…
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