Security guides your team can ship this week

A complete guide to XSS scanners: how to detect stored, reflected, and DOM XSS, which tools to use, and why your Content Security Policy is the real defense.

A security audit report is a deliverable that clients keep on file, share with their board, and use to justify remediation budgets. A poorly structured report — all technical findings, no context — fails to do its job. This guide covers what a client-ready security audit report should contain and how to produce one at scale.

OWASP ZAP is the world's most widely used open-source web application security scanner. This guide takes you from installation to full CI/CD pipeline integration.

Apache security hardening turns a default, information-leaking server into a production-grade, defense-in-depth installation. This guide covers every critical directive — from hiding server tokens to enforcing modern TLS — with copy-paste config snippets.

A security badge in your README is a public commitment to your security posture — visible to contributors, potential users, and security researchers before they write a single line of code. This guide covers the one-line Markdown implementation, HTML embed options, update frequency, and why the badge itself builds meaningful trust.

HIPAA compliance for websites goes far beyond a privacy policy. This guide covers the exact technical safeguards the Security Rule requires for any site that touches protected health information.

The OWASP Top 10 security risks explained in plain language. No jargon, real examples, and practical fixes for each vulnerability.

DAST vs SAST is one of the most important decisions in application security. This guide breaks down all four approaches — DAST, SAST, IAST, and RASP — so you can build the right testing strategy.

A security score drop is a symptom — something changed in your application's configuration, a certificate is approaching expiry, or a new vulnerability was disclosed. This guide explains what causes score drops, how to configure alert channels, and how to build an escalation policy that gets the right information to the right person.