Security reviews at the end of a build find the expensive problems too late. The controls worth baking into the first sprint.
Authentication is the part teams remember. Authorisation is the part that leaks. Model roles and record-level access as part of the domain design, not as middleware added later.
Assume every client input is hostile and validate it server-side with a schema, even when the browser already validated it. Client-side rules are user experience, not security.
Secrets belong in a managed store with rotation, never in configuration files or client bundles. Every new integration should answer where its credential lives before code is written.
Finally, log security-relevant events — permission changes, exports, failed access — in a form an auditor can read. Traceability is what converts a good posture into a defensible one.
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