Would monitoring for unusual process execution help identify intrusions on a web server?

I have a web server with each web application running as it’s own machine level account.
The server only hosts the web applications, no other services, dbs, etc.
Apart from the web server processes, nothing else should execute as these acc… Continue reading Would monitoring for unusual process execution help identify intrusions on a web server?

Public client or Confidential client: should I generate a client secret?

I’ve read about this but I don’t fully understand how to choose.
I have two options:
Public client

"A native, browser or mobile-device app. Cognito API requests are made from user systems that are not trusted with a client secret.&qu… Continue reading Public client or Confidential client: should I generate a client secret?

Detect invalid cert Android client if URL being redirected to a fake server

Here is the scenario:

Server A is an authentic server (A.com).
Server F is a fake server (F.com) that also has a valid cert for
F.com has a copy of A.com certificate to it (to fake as A.com).
Client C is trying to connect to A.com via a r… Continue reading Detect invalid cert Android client if URL being redirected to a fake server

Which is safer – using the sql_conn Flutter package or using a web server as a middle layer for requests against a SQL Server database?

We are currently working on setting up new Android handheld devices (RF guns) to read/write to our SQL Server 2019 database and are at a fork in the road in deciding what to do. Both options below would work, but option 1 is a lot faster t… Continue reading Which is safer – using the sql_conn Flutter package or using a web server as a middle layer for requests against a SQL Server database?