Free website security guides for SSL certificates, HTTP security headers, and email authentication. Step-by-step Nginx and Apache tutorials, then re-check with matching tools. No signup to read.
Learn everything about SSL certificates: how they work, types of certificates, installation guides, and troubleshooting common issues.
Master HTTP security headers: Content-Security-Policy, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, and more. Includes copy-paste configurations for all platforms.
Protect your domain from email spoofing. Complete guide to setting up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records for improved deliverability and security.
Directive breakdowns, safer policy examples, troubleshooting, and validation steps for Content-Security-Policy hardening.
Rollout sequencing, preload readiness, transport examples, troubleshooting, and validation steps for Strict-Transport-Security.
Flag-by-flag guidance, safer Set-Cookie examples, troubleshooting for auth flows, and post-fix validation for session hardening.
Method risk tables, server examples, troubleshooting for APIs and preflights, and validation for safer verb exposure.
Origin policy examples, risk tables, preflight troubleshooting, and validation steps for safer cross-origin configuration.
Exposure classes, blocking examples, containment workflow, troubleshooting, and validation for sensitive path hardening.
Field-by-field guidance, example files, troubleshooting, and validation steps for publishing security.txt correctly.
Chain optimization, server examples, troubleshooting for loops and proxy headers, and validation steps for cleaner redirects.
Parameter abuse patterns, allowlist examples, troubleshooting for auth flows, and validation steps for safer redirects.
Robots and sitemap examples, conflict tables, troubleshooting, and validation steps for crawl-facing infrastructure.
Asset risk breakdowns, upgrade examples, troubleshooting, and validation steps for removing mixed-content issues.
Protocol and cipher review, configuration examples, compatibility troubleshooting, and validation for stronger TLS posture.
Record-by-record guidance, DNS examples, troubleshooting, and validation steps for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC hardening.
Exposure signals, server examples, troubleshooting, and validation steps for reducing public stack disclosure.
Subdomain classification, inventory examples, troubleshooting, and validation steps for external asset review.
Dependency triage, upgrade examples, troubleshooting, and validation steps for outdated frontend libraries.
Record-by-record explanations, redundancy guidance, troubleshooting, and validation steps for everyday DNS hygiene.
Tag-by-tag explanations, inheritance behavior, rollout examples, and validation steps for Certificate Authority Authorization.
Registration lifecycle, EPP status flags, registrar locks, DNSSEC delegation, and validation steps for domain-level security.
Entropy scoring, pattern detection, crack-time interpretation, and practical password policy guidance.
Algorithm comparison, collision-safety guidance, verification examples, and correct usage patterns for digests.
Algorithm identification, verification workflow, and limits of one-way hashing.
Header review, sensitive feature controls, and remediation workflow.
Blacklist lookup workflow and delisting response.
Header fingerprinting and edge review workflow.
Dangling DNS workflow and remediation checklist.
Local JWT inspection, claim review, and why this is not a CSRF token tool.
Draft SPF, watch the lookup and length limits, then check the live record.
Start at p=none, require rua, and publish at the _dmarc host.
Pick a preset, copy the draft, publish it, then check the live header.
Pick Nginx, Apache, or Cloudflare, copy the draft, then check the live response.
External signals only. No cleanup and no firewall.
Policy versus what the server actually returned.
SSL install, HTTP security headers configuration, and email authentication setup — answered in order.
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Use these posts after the SSL, headers, and email guides.
Our vulnerability scanner follows OWASP Top 10 categories. Quick covers headers, SSL, and exposed paths. Standard and above add SQL injection and XSS. Comprehensive adds TLS chain review, library versions, and more URLs.