Securing Your Web App, One Robot at a Time

Modern web apps are two things: complex, and under persistent attack. Any publicly accessible web application can receive up to tens of thousands of attacks a month. While that sounds like a reason to immediately pull the plug and find a safe space to hide, these are likely spread across the spectrum of harmless to nefarious. However, that level of exposure cannot be ignored.

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Most importantly, it certainly won’t stop an attacker from being nosy if they are doing reconnaissance, either in person or via bots/scrapers/scanners. An attacker won’t respect a friendly request not to attack a page, and just as you need to consider the scope of a public web app as fair game for attack —you should mirror that mindset in your approach to securing web apps.

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