From Pentest to 1.7 Million Downloads, Part 1: The Headers I’d Never Heard Of

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Show Notes

Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem.

Today's episode is a little different from the norm. I waned to, temporarily, take you away from the "AI is the best thing ever/worst thing ever" news cycle, and talk to you about an open source project that I work on called "OwaspHeaders.Core"

This is the first in a two-part series about OwaspHeaders.Core and lays the ground work for why I chose to create it. Part two will be more about how I went about creating it, and the lessons I learned along the way, which are not just about HTTP headers and building your own NuGet package, and some of the amazing contributions that the community has put in place.

The three main goals for this two-part series are to talk people through the real-world problem that exists in all web frameworks and how we can all work together to solve it, to talk you through what I believe good open source stewardship looks like, and to talk through what creating and publishing a NuGet package looks like.

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Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET.

Full Show Notes

The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/from-pentest-to-1-7-million-downloads-part-1-the-headers-id-never-heard-of/

Useful Links:

• OwaspHeaders.Core documentation
• OwaspHeaders.Core on NuGet
• OWASP Secure Headers Project
• Episodes featuring Tanya Jana:
  • Episode 77 - Application Security
  • Episode 105 - More App Security
  • S07E11 - The Security Expert Speaks
• Troy Hunt
• securityheaders.com
• Abel Wang ("Don't Accept The Defaults")

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