Content Security Policy (CSP) is a browser security feature that was implemented to mitigate against certain types of browser-based attacks, like cross-site scripting.
In a world of internet speeds and data transfer, terms like Mbps, mb/s and MB/s often are mistaken for the same thing. Both are used to describe data rates, but the difference in capitalization is crucial for understanding which is which.
A Web Application Firewall is a security component that lives in front of a web application, and inspects inbound traffic to web applications to prevent malicious requests from exploiting vulnerabilities.
Lazy loading is a technique used by web developers to delay loading non-important things on the page. Things like images, videos, and embedded content usually loads last, or until they’re actually needed by the page.
DNS is the internet’s phonebook that maps out a site’s URL (like cside.dev) to the numeric IP address of where the servers hosting those sites are.
When building a website, you’ll often encounter the term DOM - which stands for the Document Object Model. The DOM is a programming interface that represents a webpage as a structured tree of nodes, with each node correlating to an HTML element (like a heading tag, paragraph, and link).
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is any data that can be used to identify a person, either on its own or in conjunction with another piece of data.