Original Post: BSides Las Vegas: the power of guardrails
In a talk at BSides Las Vegas, r2c security researchers Colleen Dai and Grayson Hardaway explored the impact of secure guardrails on reducing XSS risks by 50%. They demonstrated that secure defaults can elevate a company’s security, utilizing real code to support their findings. The duo examined XSS vulnerabilities in 125 GitHub repositories across multiple programming languages—Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and Golang—and discussed potential mitigation strategies. They also offered a free set of rules for immediate use to prevent future XSS occurrences in your code.
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