Protecting secrets and reducing information leakage Course

Take a look at what you need to do to protect secrets, reduce information leakage and use the configuration system properly.

21 minutes

Course description

Securing configuration and secrets is one of the most important parts of your Laravel app. This course will focus on using the configuration system properly, securing environment secrets and ways to force SSL for your Laravel app. In addition, log filtering and exception handling systems are constructed to reduce the chance of leaking sensitive information.

Syllabus

Exception handler configuration

Video - 00:02:00

Configuring Laravel's built-in exception handler to strip out sensitive information.
Log filtering

Video - 00:05:00

How to add filtering to remove sensitive information from log stacks.
Forcing SSL

Video - 00:02:00

If you can't force SSL redirects at the server level, what can Laravel do about it?
Environment and debug impacts

Video - 00:02:00

Trust but verify the impact of environment and debug settings.
Securing secrets and using configuration

Video - 00:08:00

Securely implementing secrets and credentials and accessing application configuration predictably.

Meet the author

Aaron Saray

Aaron Saray believes that meeting business objectives and software security go hand-in-hand. Even before cyber security was a widely recognized career path, he was creating war games and capture the flag challenges for his fellow IT professionals. Now, he specializes in web-based programming in open source languages. He hasn’t let his first love wither, though! He’s a staunch advocate for unit tests, access controls, and security audits in all of his projects. His Infosec content shows his deep understanding of his chosen programming tools while elegantly applying best practices in secure coding.

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