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Secure Development Environment for University dealing with private data

We are a development team within a state public university. Much of our development deals with working with private student and employee data. Some applications push data from internal databases out ...
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What is the best practice for storing a secret on the cloud?

This post on Securing Java Application Data for Cloud Computing offers a good introduction to using a Java KeyStore for securing encrypted data in the cloud. It neglects, however, to answer the ...
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What does key, key pair and signature mean here?

I was reading How are possible uses for X.509 (SSL) certificates denoted? on IT SE. It begins with: X.509 certificates can be used for servers, clients, email, code signing and more ...
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Google App Engine Security

I am writing a master thesis concerning security of certain applications, and as a part of it I want to write a web app on Google App Engine and test how secure it is. Does anyone know if there was ...
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Google App Engine Security [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Google App Engine Security I am writing a master thesis concerning security of certain applications, and as a part of it I want to write a web app on Google App Engine ...
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What is more secure: Many subdirectories, or many subdomains?

I have 3 websites that could be configured as a "VirtualApplication" in servicedefinition.csdef: www.mydomain.net/enroll www.mydomain.net/admin www.mydomain.net/ ... or I can configure them as a ...
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What CSS is considered Safe or Unsafe within a multi tenant website?

I'm reading the Azure Patterns and Practices multi-tenant guidance and in there it says Cascading style sheets Behaviors are one feature that the Surveys site will not support. What CSS ...
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How does LiveID work? Is there any documentation on the LiveID provisioning site msm.live.com?

I'm trying to learn details on how LiveID works, when compared to other federation technologies. To be honest, I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the options at https://msm.live.com/ and want to understand ...