Restrict path access to prevent path traversal

Often we will refer to a file on disk or other resource using a path. For example, a path traversal attack is when an attacker supplies input that gets used with our path to access a file on the file system that we did not intend. The input usually attempts to break out of the application’s working directory and access a file elsewhere on the file system. You can mitigate this attack category by restricting the scope of file system access and reducing the attack surface by using a restricted file permission profile. ...

September 27, 2022 · 3 min

The development series

The development series aims to bring you language-specific getting started guides to walk you through the process of setting up your development environment and start containerising language-specific applications using Docker. The learning modules contain best practices and guidelines that explain how to create a new Dockerfile for your preferred language, what to include in the Docker image, how to develop and run your Docker image, set up a CI/CD pipeline, and finally provides information on how to push the application you’ve developed to the cloud. ...

March 24, 2022 · 1 min

How To Create Modules In Python

How To Create Modules in Python is today’s topic. We will see how to create a module and import that module in Python.

March 24, 2022 · 4 min