Threat model the feature
Ask who might abuse the feature, what they gain, and which controls reduce that risk. Ten minutes of structured questions beats a month of vague worry.
Document assumptions. Security reviews fail when teams disagree about what “authenticated” means.
Secrets and identity
Never ship secrets in client bundles or commit them to git. Prefer short-lived credentials, environment injection, and secret managers.
Authorize on the server with explicit checks. UI hiding is not access control.
Safe defaults scale better than heroics
Template repositories with logging, auth middleware, and dependency scanning already enabled will outpace one-off audits.
