Security in a modern world

More distribution of applications leads to higher demand in securing communication. The integrity of exchanged information needs to be ensured. Similarly, people are aware of the necessity of encryption, especially when it comes to encrypting communication.

What possibilities do engineers have in today's enterprise world? What principles should they follow when realizing security?

Security principles

There are some basic principles that should be followed when implementing security in enterprise applications. The following list aims to give the basic ideas, and is not intended to be exhaustive.

Encrypt communication

First of all, it's important to mention that external communication that happens over the internet must be encrypted. The usual way of doing this is via TLS using trusted certificates. This is possible for HTTP as well as for other communication protocols.

The authenticity of the certificates used must be verified at runtime by the implementation. They have...