Security Best Practices vs Security Through Obscurity
Developers should learn and apply Security Best Practices to prevent costly data breaches, comply with regulations like GDPR or HIPAA, and build trust with users meets developers should understand this concept primarily to avoid it, as it is considered a poor security practice that can lead to vulnerabilities when the obscurity is inevitably bypassed. Here's our take.
Security Best Practices
Developers should learn and apply Security Best Practices to prevent costly data breaches, comply with regulations like GDPR or HIPAA, and build trust with users
Security Best Practices
Nice PickDevelopers should learn and apply Security Best Practices to prevent costly data breaches, comply with regulations like GDPR or HIPAA, and build trust with users
Pros
- +Specific use cases include securing web applications against SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), implementing secure authentication in mobile apps, and hardening cloud infrastructure in DevOps environments
- +Related to: owasp-top-10, penetration-testing
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Security Through Obscurity
Developers should understand this concept primarily to avoid it, as it is considered a poor security practice that can lead to vulnerabilities when the obscurity is inevitably bypassed
Pros
- +It is sometimes used in limited contexts, such as obscuring non-critical details to add a minor layer of defense-in-depth, but it should never be the sole or primary security mechanism
- +Related to: cybersecurity, defense-in-depth
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use Security Best Practices if: You want specific use cases include securing web applications against sql injection and cross-site scripting (xss), implementing secure authentication in mobile apps, and hardening cloud infrastructure in devops environments and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Security Through Obscurity if: You prioritize it is sometimes used in limited contexts, such as obscuring non-critical details to add a minor layer of defense-in-depth, but it should never be the sole or primary security mechanism over what Security Best Practices offers.
Developers should learn and apply Security Best Practices to prevent costly data breaches, comply with regulations like GDPR or HIPAA, and build trust with users
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