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You built all the right security features. RLS is on, auth is configured, HTTPS is everywhere. But have you ever actually tried to hack your own app? If not, someone else certainly will. Here are the three things you can do right now to test your security. Step 1. Run OWASP ZAP on your app.

ZAP is free, it's open source, it's one Docker command. It crawls your entire app and tests for the top 10 vulnerabilities. SQL injections, cross-site scripting, broken authentication. The report is powerful and it tells you exactly where you're vulnerable. Run it against your staging environment. Why? Because you can fix things before an attacker finds them in production.

That's a win. Step 2. Test your own API in Burp Suite. You can intercept your own requests, change the user ID in the JWT payload, and then you need to know can you access another user data change the org underscore ID and the request body can you read another tenant records Modify the role claim Can you access admin endpoints If any of these actually work

your authorization logic has holes in it like Swiss cheese. RLS is not enough. Your API passes unchecked parameters to the database. That's not a win. Step three, automate security scanning and CI. Sneak are GitHub's built-in code scanning added to your GitHub Actions workflow. Every push gets scanned from known vulnerabilities and dependencies. Every PR gets checked for hard

coded secrets with GitGuardian or TruffleHog. Security is not a one-time audit, folks. It's a continuous process of running on every single commit. Scan, intercept, and automate. You're not hiring a pen testing firm for $50,000. You're running the same tools they use for free. The difference? You got to run them before the breach. So when did you last try to hack your own app?