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Beyond the Firewall: A Guide to Understanding and Defeating CSRF Attacks

A deep dive into CSRF attacks, one of the most common web vulnerabilities. This guide explains the anatomy of an attack, covers best practices for mitigation like the Synchronizer Token Pattern and SameSite cookies, and details common anti-patterns to avoid.

On Sep 2, 2025 Cybersecurity Web Development CSRF Security DevOps security web-development

The 100ms Advantage: Caching Headers Boosting Revenue

Website speed directly impacts revenue - just 100ms can cause a 7% drop in conversions. This guide explains how HTTP caching headers like Cache-Control and Content-Encoding can dramatically improve performance, reduce infrastructure costs, and boost SEO rankings. Learn to turn complex caching concepts into simple, powerful business advantages.

On Sep 2, 2025 caching performance http seo devops web-development