7 HTTP headers to secure your app for the busy web developer
Modern web browsers offer a lot of security features aimed at protecting your users from a wide variety of threats such as malware installed on their device, hackers listening to their network traffic and malicious phishing sites pretending to be something that they’re not. Unfortunately quite a few of these features are disabled by default in order to ensure backward compatibility with older websites that rely on insecure behavior to function properly. What a lot of developers don’t know is that many of these settings are actually incredibly simple to enable, and you can protect your app from a wide variety of attacks in less than an afternoon. Here is a list of the most important security HTTP headers and why you should care about them. Read more @ Sqreen Blog.