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What is a Content Security Policy (CSP)?
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.
Read article 002What is DNS?
DNS is the internet’s phonebook that maps out a site’s URL (like cside.com) to the numeric IP address of where the servers hosting those sites are.
Read article 003What is DOM?
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).
Read article 004Mbps vs MB/s: what is the difference?
Mbps and Mb/s are megabits per second. MB/s is megabytes per second, so divide Mbps by 8 to estimate MB/s or multiply MB/s by 8 to estimate Mbps.
Read article 005What is a WAF?
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.
Read article 006Why do things on my page appear later?
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.
Read article 007What is PII?
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.
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