SecureHeaders
RbNaCl
SecureHeaders | RbNaCl | |
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2 | 1 | |
3,129 | 977 | |
0.3% | -0.2% | |
4.2 | 2.9 | |
8 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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SecureHeaders
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4 Essential Security Tools To Level Up Your Rails Security
The secure_headers gem will automatically apply several headers that are related to security. This includes:
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Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
add secure_headers
RbNaCl
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Ruby cryptographic gems
The other gem I want to explore is rbnacl. This gem provides general purpose cryptography for many different scenarios and algorithms. They do so in a simplified way so that mortals like us don't have to become cryptography experts. Check out these docs to see what I'm talking about!
What are some alternatives?
Metasploit - Metasploit Framework
Rack::Protection - NOTE: This project has been merged upstream to sinatra/sinatra
Clamby - ClamAV interface to your Ruby on Rails project.
BeEF - The Browser Exploitation Framework Project
TSS - Threshold Secret Sharing - A Ruby implementation of Threshold Secret Sharing (Shamir) as defined in IETF Internet-Draft draft-mcgrew-tss-03.txt
Rack::ContentSecurityPolicy
bundler-audit - Patch-level verification for Bundler
Hashids - A small Ruby gem to generate YouTube-like hashes from one or many numbers. Use hashids when you do not want to expose your database ids to the user.
Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
Rack::Attack - Rack middleware for blocking & throttling
Rack::UTF8Sanitizer - Rack::UTF8Sanitizer is a Rack middleware which cleans up invalid UTF8 characters in request URI and headers.