Security Audit Checklist: Pre-Launch Review Guide
A practical pre-launch security checklist covering auth, secrets, headers, dependencies, input validation, and error handling.
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Security Audit Checklist: 20 Things to Check Before Launch Security reviews before launch catch the issues that slip through during development. This checklist covers the categories most likely to contain exploitable vulnerabilities in typical web applications: authentication, authorization, input handling, dependency management, secrets, transport security, and monitoring. Work through these items systematically. Each "no" is a finding that needs remediation before launch. Authentication (Items 1–5) Passwords hashed with a work-hardened algorithm Check: are user passwords stored with bcrypt, Argon2id, or PBKDF2-SHA512? Not SHA-256, MD5, or plain text? Any "yes" to SHA-256 or MD5 in password storage is a critical finding. Breach database checking on registration Does the registration flow…
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