Chapter 1

Application Fortification

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

—Sun Tzu in The Art of War

The recipes in this section walk you through the process of preparing your web application for the production network battlefront.

The first step is application fortification, in which you analyze the current web application that you must protect and enhance its defensive capabilities.

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