INSIGHTS / TECHNICAL DECISIONS
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Detailed, evidence-based articles about the decisions behind reliable AI products, maintainable Laravel systems and effective IT security.
Secure Laravel authentication and session management
A technical guide to login, session cookies, password resets, email changes, MFA, magic links and secure account recovery.
10 common security mistakes in Laravel projects
Ten development mistakes that expose authorisation, uploads, database queries, webhooks and production Laravel systems to attack.
Laravel security starts before the controller
How tenant boundaries, policies, state transitions, queues and negative tests become verifiable security invariants.
Prioritising security findings and fixing them sustainably
How teams combine technical severity, reachability and business impact and turn a finding into a robust remediation.
What bug bounty experience changes in software development
Offensive security work trains people to recognise false assumptions and improves requirements, architecture, tests and remediation.
Preparing a penetration test: scope, access and evidence
What team leads should clarify before a pentest so depth, time budget, communication and retesting fit together.
A realistic view of AI-assisted penetration testing
Where AI helps with reconnaissance, hypotheses and reporting, where it fails and how local models protect sensitive test data.
Securing AI agents: tool permissions, budgets and approvals
How narrow tool contracts, least privilege, technical budgets and verifiable approvals keep agents controllable.
Local LLMs or frontier models: decide by data class
A decision framework for quality, privacy, cost and operations across external APIs, local inference and hybrid workflows.