security-best-practices

Securing a backend requires enforcing strict CSRF protections, secure cookies, and robust input validation. The guidance provides mitigations across Node.js, Python, and Go stacks to implement secure defaults and harden software during development and code reviews.

Threat modeling during architecture decisions involves systematically identifying risks and applying security best practices to harden software. This guidance enforces threat modeling prompts and structured mitigations for risks like SSRF and secrets handling across Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python stacks.

Yes, this secure coding guidance works with Python and Go backend frameworks, as well as JavaScript and TypeScript. It provides a structured catalog of security guidelines applicable during development, code reviews, and security assessments across these major programming stacks.

To run a security audit and surface top code improvements, you can quickly audit your codebase against the structured catalog of security guidelines. This surfaces recommended improvements for input validation, secrets handling, and secure deployment configurations across supported stacks.

Mitigating SSRF risks and managing secrets requires enforcing secure defaults and applying specific security best practices in your deployment configurations. The guidance offers a structured catalog to validate these risks across major backend stacks during security assessments and reviews.