C H A P T E R  11

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Preventing Data Loss

After considering at length in Chapter 10 who our users are and how we can permit them to use our applications securely, we turn now to a series of chapters in which we discuss permitting secure use of our applications by developers and maintainers. We begin by focusing on protecting your PHP application's data.

When considering the security of an application, we normally think about keeping secret data from being revealed, protecting application resources from abuse, or keeping out unwanted users. But the overall integrity of an application's data is important, too. Whether considered secret or not, your ...

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