Navigating Early Career Hurdles: Security (Keeping User Data Safe as a Frontend Engineer)

In software product development, security is one foundational principle on which your product relies heavily. Put, security encompasses all practices aimed at safeguarding digital solutions from attackers, ensuring unauthorized access to systems and data is prevented. With this understanding in mind, it becomes a shared responsibility for every engineer to prioritize. While security comprises various components, this post will focus on addressing one of these integral parts.

Challenge

In the early stages of my software engineering journey, I encountered a …

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