Articles tagged with security

Brute Force Protection

By Arvid Picciani
This component is meant to protect you against brute force attacks on forms (and other types of requests).
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User Permissions and CakePHP ACL

By Theshz
This article shows how to use CakePHP's ACL to control user access to different parts of a website. It covers CakePHP 1.1.10.3825 (November, 2006)
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SecureGet Component

By franck
I was searching a simple way to "secure" a bit the links in my cake application. Indeed everyone had this question "what if someone types 'cake/app/user/edit/5' in the browser URL bar ?" ..etc ..
I am not pretending this can replace ACL or more complex implementation, it's just a small component, inspired a bit from the Security component.
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Using Security Component and multi Checkboxes

By foxmask
As i did not find the way to do it with the Cake FormHelper i will detail what i did and why.

The helper PcformHelper is usefull when you want to use the Security Component, and need to create an array of checkboxes.
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