The four aspects of a secure web app

Securing a website is often compared to installing a lock on a door. In reality, that is a poor analogy. A more apt analogy would be fortifying a castle. When a castle is besieged, a locked gate alone offers little protection. A castle needs multiple layers of defense, where each layer protects the next.

It is crucial to understand what you are trying to procect: the data. All the security layers revolve around safeguarding it. That’s why a secure application has the following aspects:

Aspect 1: Proper Identity- and Access Management

The most obvious way to secure your website is by allowing only authenticated users to access the application. This ensures that only authorized individuals have access to the system.

User management is a critical and sensitive component of any application. Compromising user management can have severe consequences for the entire system’s security.

As security protocols evolve and become more intricate, implementing an effective identity and access management system demands specialized expertise that you cannot expect every developer to have. Therefore, it is highly advisable to utilize third-party identity and access management services. Providers such as Auth0 or Azure Active Directory can offer robust solutions in…