Security – Authentication, Data Sharing, and Encryption

While cyber-attacks are definitely on the rise, most data breaches aren’t committed by people who growl, “I’m in” as a bunch of neon green letters stream down a page to “hack” into “the mainframe.” Data breaches mostly happen when someone at a corporation is sloppy, not paying attention, or deceived by an outside party. Make no mistake, hackers absolutely exist, and good ones can definitely code their way around vulnerabilities in your system architecture to get what they’re after. However, the true culprit behind data leaks is usually people within their own organization making preventable mistakes in a hurry.

Good Information Security (InfoSec) practices start with the right mindset: designing for caution and prioritizing safety first. With anything externally-facing such as a digital site, you need to be especially thoughtful about the security mechanisms...