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What is a Content Security Policy? — step-by-step Security tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is a Content Security Policy?

A Content Security Policy (CSP) is a mechanism for web developers to increase the security of their websites. By setting a Content Security Policy, web developers can instruct web browsers to only load resources from certain trusted domains, enforce secure HTTPS connections, and even report policy violations as they occur. This can prevent many content injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, which often lead to data leaks, website vandalism, and malware distribution.

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What is an HTML Element? — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is an HTML Element?

An HTML element is a component of an HTML document that tells a web browser how to structure and interpret a part of the HTML document. HTML elements can contain formatting instructions, semantic meaning, and content.

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What is Debugging? — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is Debugging?

In computing, debugging is the process of looking for and then resolving issues that prevent software from running correctly. Software bugs refer to an error or fault in the codebase that leads to an unexpected result, or unintended outcomes. Because of this naming convention, the process…

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What is Linux? — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is Linux?

Generally, Linux refers to a group of open-source operating system distributions built around the Linux kernel. In the strictest sense, Linux refers only to the presence of the kernel itself. Linus Torvalds first released the Linux operating system kernel in 1991, as an alternative to Unix, a…

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What is SELinux? — step-by-step Security tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is SELinux?

Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is an access control system that is built into the Linux kernel. It is used to enforce policies that define which resources users, programs and services can use on a system. In its default enforcing mode, SELinux will deny and log any unauthorized attempts to…

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What is a Control Panel? — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is a Control Panel?

A control panel is a graphical interface that allows users to manage settings and features. They are often found in the context of native apps on desktop or mobile operating systems, where they can be used to configure applications and the operating system itself, or on the web, where they most…

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What is Django? — step-by-step Python tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is Django?

Django is an open source Python web framework used for web development. Released in July 2005, Django is popular for its…

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What is MariaDB? — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is MariaDB?

MariaDB is an open-source relational database management system. As with other relational databases, MariaDB stores data in tables made up of rows and columns. Users can define, manipulate, control, and query data using Structured Query Language, more commonly known as…

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What is Serverless? — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is Serverless?

This the cloud provider Community Glossary entry provides a short introduction to serverless computing and links to related resources.

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