From the course: Express Essentials: Build Powerful Web Apps with Node.js
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Security concerns and best practices
From the course: Express Essentials: Build Powerful Web Apps with Node.js
Security concerns and best practices
- [Instructor] Cyber attacks are a very common occurrence these days. It is important to make sure we keep our applications as secure as possible to protect the data that we are using. We are just going to briefly touch on some of the security best practices to keep in mind with Express. For further information regarding security, please check out some of the other LinkedIn Learning courses that are available that go more in depth with this topic. This list was pulled together based on the security concerns that Express has highlighted in their documentation. Please visit their site for more in-depth information regarding security best practices. First and foremost, it is important to make sure that you keep up to date with the most recent version of Express and other dependency modules that you're using. Older versions will have vulnerabilities that can make you susceptible to security issues in addition to performance issues…
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