Tighten the security belt of your website: HTTP Security Headers
With the enhancement in technology and security, modern browsers now provide something that is known as, HTTP Headers that can improve applications against some common attacks such as clickjacking, cross-site scripting, and many more. Let us explore some methods you can tighten the security belt of your website.
Understanding HTTP Security Headers
Whenever a user requests a page from a server, it responds with the content along with some HTTP response header. Some of them consist of information such as content, encoding, status code, cache control, and many more. Along with these, there are some security headers that instruct your browser on how to behave when handling your website’s content, which is known as HTTP Security Header. It helps to preserve the privacy of your website as well as it’s users. It also helps mitigate some of the potential security vulnerabilities as well.
Let us now discuss some of the important HTTP Security headers that help you to tighten up the security belt of your website.
