{"id":6338,"date":"2020-05-11T21:06:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T21:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glajumedia.com\/en\/?p=6338"},"modified":"2022-03-22T22:14:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:14:04","slug":"cybersecurity-practices-backend-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmedia.la\/en\/cybersecurity-practices-backend-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity: Top Practices for Backend Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last 5 years, a <\/span>study<\/span><\/a> shows global demand for cybersecurity experts increases each year. Many enterprises and companies have been strongly looking for the top security talents to build a reliable service and secure user\u2019s data. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first step should be to create a more secure product or service by hiring more engineers specialized in cybersecurity. This article will show up some top cybersecurity practices when you are dealing with information from your customers. <\/span><\/p>\n

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BLOCKING OR THROTTLING ACTION<\/span><\/h2>\n

The best way to start is by detecting suspicious activities and throttle or block them to prevent any kind of attacks. For example,<\/span> Cloudflare<\/span><\/a> can be used as content delivery networks that detect suspicious traffic and block them at their source. Besides, users must not be allowed to do things that will overload the site. <\/span><\/p>\n

An action that should be throttled, it is the number of requests that users can make. This way, they can\u2019t make a bunch of requests at the same time and crush your system. Also, other suspicious activities carry deleting or editing a huge amount of data at once.<\/span><\/p>\n

SECURE AND USER-FRIENDLY<\/span><\/h2>\n

To have a secure and user-friendly site is not always easy to create. You have to make sure that the level of security is high-level which might boost development time. In fact, it is not a visible feature for users and sometimes it could affect the performance of your software. The right balance of cybersecurity and user-friendly is that backend developers need to have practical knowledge of cryptography. <\/span><\/p>\n

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DRAWBACKS<\/span><\/h2>\n

The understanding of database security requires management techniques and programing demands such as cryptography and access control (as extra features) than cornerstones. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here are two main drawbacks:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Trust tokens:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n