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Security

- What are some security measures you consider in development and production environments? - This question is used to gauge your ability to identify potential security problems and how to avoid them. You can start by answering this question with the definition of security, using the easy to recall acronym CIA, confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and then follow with how these tenants of security can be applied. The C in CIA is for confidentiality. This means information that needs to stay private is kept private. This could include usernames and passwords, authentication tokens, or encryption keys. To ensure this information remains confidential, it can be encrypted and stored in a Secrets Manager. Also, application code can be placed in a version control system with access limited to developers that have a need to access the code. I is for integrity. This means that once data has been created, it remains…

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