Tom Vicary
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Client-Side Security
Client-Side Risks in Healthcare: Reinforcing Existing Application Security Programs
Healthcare organizations routinely handle extremely sensitive personal data – including patient records, diagnostic histories, financial details, and personal identifiers. This has made the sector an attractive target for cybercriminals –…
Code Protection
Understanding JavaScript Obfuscation and Minification
JavaScript obfuscation and minification are two essential techniques in modern web development – both address performance and security concerns, but in fundamentally different ways. Minification reduces file sizes to speed…
Client-Side Security
Data Leakage Prevention
Cybercriminals work tirelessly to compromise sensitive data by manipulating technology to commit malicious activities against digital systems or networks – and it’s up to their intended targets to defend against…
Threat Detection & Prevention
How to Strengthen E-commerce Security Against E-skimming Threats
E-commerce security: being an e-commerce merchant is not a point of difference in today’s digital world; it’s the default market entry point for businesses that recognize the modern consumers’ demand…
Client-Side Security
Best Practices to Ensure API Security: Why and How?
API security aims to protect APIs from attacks and data breaches.When we use software applications, such as mobile apps, we take it for granted that the information we request will be delivered…
Security Research
Formjacking: How to Prevent Hackers Hijacking Your Online Forms
In 2018 British Airways became one of the first high-profile victims of a relatively new cyber-attack that compromised 380,000 customer transactions. In the wake of the data breach, a cybersecurity…
Data Governance & Privacy
Data Fencing: Building a Strong Web Security Perimeter
Data fencing security: Cybercriminals are opportunists. As the level of interaction between users and websites escalates, an increasing amount of private data is being exposed in the browser – and…
Client-Side Security
Data Breaches in the Entertainment and Media Industry: What You Need to Know
From the damage caused by lockdowns to the erosion of consumer spending power amid spiraling inflation, the entertainment and media industry has faced considerable headwinds in recent years. Having weathered…
Client-Side Security
Top 6 JavaScript Vulnerabilities to Look Out for in 2025
Anecdotal evidence that JavaScript is the top programming language is easy to come by. Ask most web developers and they will wax lyrical about its versatility, ease of use, and…
Client-Side Security
Google Announces Third-Party Cookies are Here to Stay
On 14 January 2020, Google published a blog post detailing a shock announcement that was lauded as a victory in the battle for greater user privacy. Entitled ‘Building a more…
Client-Side Security
How do JavaScript frameworks impact the security of applications?
With almost 14 million active developers and 98% of all websites using it, JavaScript provides the building blocks for web applications – and it’s easy to see why it’s so…
Client-Side Security
Generative AI revolution: controlling convenience with client-side protection and compliance
Is Generative AI (GenAI) a victim of its success? This consumer-friendly subset of AI has quickly become embedded in our daily lives. Amid this uptake, and subsequent expansion of the…
Client-Side Security
Data Privacy in Financial Services: Why and How?
The evolution of the financial services industry has seen bricks replaced by clicks as our reliance on the internet becomes all-consuming. To keep pace with this shift online, the integration…
Client-Side Security
Tracking the growth of healthcare data breaches
There is a worrying symptom of the healthcare industry’s universal adoption of electronic health record systems: the exposure of sensitive patient information through healthcare data breaches.The benefits of making healthcare…