The importance of security
Historically, the security of applications was not considered a priority by developers. The main reason was that the security culture was not present in the developers’ mindset as the main goal was to deliver features as soon as possible and, historically, the systems that we built were not critical for the business or exposed to the internet 24/7 as they are today.
Nowadays, we depend on a lot of third-party libraries and services that we don’t control, and we don’t know whether they are secure or not. We build very complex systems with many layers beyond our own business logic, and we need to be aware of the risks that we are taking and how to mitigate them.
At the end of the day, it is up to us as individuals to be aware of the risks, and the security of our applications...
