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Implementing a Content Security Policy
- 21 March 2023
Implementing a Content Security Policy (CSP) for a website can be a daunting and difficult task as it can break your website when done incorrectly. But a CSP can help to guard against cross-site script attacks and data injection attacks on a website as it defines which resources are all allowed to be loaded or executed. This also reduces the risk of including unauthorized third-party content to be included or posted to another site.
Configuring CSP can be done by adding a HTTP response header or by adding a META-tags to the requested HTML content. The latter depends on the CMS to be executed correctly for all HTML content requested. Most sites therefore implement the HTTP response header method as all the common web servers and content delivery networks support this.