django-security
Tool and Usage
Project details
- Year of inception
- License
- BSD 3-clause
- Programming language
- Python
- Latest release
- 0.14.0
- Latest release date
Project health
Why this tool?
Django-security is an extension for developers seeking more security measures in their Django project. The toolkit can set or activate particular settings improving security. Examples of these settings include the use of particular HTTP headers that increase the security defenses of the web application.
Part of the toolkit is middleware to enforce password strength, set the do-not-track header, enable content security policy (CSP), enable privacy policy (P3P), limit session length, use HTTPS (HSTS), XSS protection, and more.
How it works
Django-security provides a number of models, views, middleware, and forms to facilitate security hardening of a Django application. It is up to the developer to leverage the functionality and enable the related security measures.
Usage and audience
django-security is commonly used for application security. Target users for this tool are developers.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 10 contributors
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
Django-security is known to work on Linux.
Dependencies
Several dependencies are required to use django-security.
- django
- ua_parser
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a Django security tool and web application security tool.