From the course: JavaScript: Security Essentials
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Best practices for sensitive data - JavaScript Tutorial
From the course: JavaScript: Security Essentials
Best practices for sensitive data
- [Presenter] So let's review best practices for sensitive data. Like I've mentioned, all the other techniques explored in the other videos apply to data, so make sure we explore them and apply them to your projects. In the long run, once you get some ground under your feet on the basics of JavaScript and frameworks and are on your way to build an application, the next stage is how you can protect it and all its data, so apply religiously the techniques explored here. For sensitive data, using any type of cryptography tools to encrypt your data from your server to your client is crucial. Your data must be encrypted when it leaves your server until it reaches an authorized client, and then deciphered on the client for consumption. And the same thing goes when you send sensitive data from the client to the server. Data can be caught at any point in the transportation from and to where it originates. Be very mindful of that when you build your application or how your infrastructure will…
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