Encryption and Importance of Security in ColdFusion
Filed under ColdFusion , Encrypt() / Decrypt()
With the push of some of our web application to an external production server, security has become an important part of all applications. Everyone knows of <cfqueryparam> and that has been blogged about more than enough times. What about other techniques of security including the coldfusion functions encrypt and decrypt?
The following blog post gives a little background on how to setup and use those functions for password protection: http://tutorial113.easycfm.com/
The functions seem really straight forward and easy to use. You can apply the functions when passing variables through a URL or when passing arguments to coldfusion components. I would like to learn what other security features are must haves in any application and also what the advantages and disadvantages are of these coldfusion functions. Any help would be greatly appreciated and a big thanks in advance!
Nov10