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Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

#254 Aug 9, 2020 pro

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that uses additional HTTP headers to tell browsers to give a web application running at one origin, access to selected resources from a different origin.

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Dynamic Role Management

#247 Jun 21, 2020 pro

Create dynamic roles that can be assigned to users. Based on the assigned role, the user will be able to perform or view various parts of the application.

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Interview with Frank Rietta

#183 Apr 17, 2019 free

In this interview, Frank Rietta, a security expert in web applications, talks about various recommendations for securing a Ruby on Rails application. Many areas are explored from code, staff, servers and infrastructure.

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Policy Manager with GDPR Rails

#164 Dec 16, 2018 pro

Using the gdpr_rails gem, we look at adding a policy manager to require users to accept age, terms, and privacy policies before signing up for an account.

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Friend Requests From Scratch

#155 Oct 14, 2018 pro

Part I - In this episode, we create our authentication for users, default view for authenticated users, friendship model, associations and scopes for our social media application.

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Safely Running Shell Commands

#151 Sep 16, 2018 pro

We may come across a need to run shell commands and Ruby has some built in methods which appear safe, but can introduce major security risks.

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Search Encrypted Attributes with Blind Index

#139 Jun 24, 2018 pro

Keeping client data protected is important, but once an attribute is encrypted, it becomes difficult to work with it. With Blind Index, we regain functionality on searching and validations.

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Preparing for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

#129 Apr 15, 2018 pro

In this episode, we look adding in some of the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation into our Ruby on Rails application. Disclaimer: this episode is not legal advice and you should consult a lawyer.

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Restricting Access by IP Address

#92 Aug 6, 2017 free

Learn to lock down your application or parts of your application by IP Addresses.

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Client Side Encryption

#63 Jan 15, 2017 free

Add an extra level of security to your application with client side encryption. Even over an SSL connection, there are attacks which could expose your users' sensitive information. Using JSEncrypt, learn how to encrypt on the client side and decrypt on the server side.

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Preparing for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Restricting Access by IP Address

Client Side Encryption