Security Practices in Joomla!
When developing software for the web, you’ll encounter security threats. These may involve targeted attacks on your system, but more often than not, they will be random attacks with no specific target.
Joomla! is a secure platform that takes security very seriously. It has a team of expert volunteers who tackle and patch any vulnerability that might appear. But you also need to stay vigilant yourself because, as a developer, you need to be sure that your web application does not offer vulnerabilities that could be exploited.
Even though when you consider it’s impossible to exploit a vulnerability in your code, you need to stay proactive and fix it. Web applications move in a complex environment with many technologies involved, so attacks might appear for unexpected reasons.
In this chapter, we will cover the most common security practices we need to follow in Joomla!. This will help you deliver secure solutions to your users.
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