Posted by bearsyankees 15 hours ago
Now if only we knew if the stonks would go up or down (due to global turmoil) before I throw my savings at the SPY
1. A start up is validating a service provider to ensure that they are secure enough so that they can trust them before signing up for their service
2. The service provider is already trusted by so many big name companies who handed over their data, the customers data to them
Should it not be other way around?
On a different note, the finding is not just one off absolute, rather its a symptom which points to certain experience and expertise level for security practices. To be fair its hard to blame the start up folks, they are running against time and cutting corners is somewhat critical for survival for their business
For a small team the fix that actually sticks is having the platform expire things by default (short-lived tokens, forced re-issue) rather than relying on a human remembering to rotate on a calendar. That calendar reminder is competing with every other thing on a solo dev's plate, and it reliably loses.
I get how these choices might be the local optimum for a desired UX, but damn is it depressing to extrapolate where software as a whole is going.