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Web Security Developer Experience Short Survey

Date

Survey run between 2023-05-18 - 2022-05-25 to 10% of users on API and HTTP pages. See background discussion.

Questions

  1. To keep your Web app and its users safe from security vulnerabilities, rate how easy or challenging are the following aspects:(options listed in random order, each option listed with 5 choices: "very easy", "easy", "neutral", "somewhat challenging", "very challenging")

    • Understanding security threats and how they might apply to your web application
    • Understanding the security model of Web browsers (e.g. same-origin policy, CORS, permissions policy)
    • Keeping up to date the frameworks and libraries your app depends on
    • Integrating safely third-party services (e.g. login, payment)
    • Configuring the server to match the required security properties (e.g. SSL, HTTP headers)
    • Detecting security vulnerabilities introduced in your development workflow (e.g. cross-site scripting)
  2. What are the other main security-related challenges you're facing when developing and deploying Web content? (free form text entry)

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