Make Your Online Identity Safe Again (6) - Applying the Three Goals and Golden Rules.

I was chosen to become a part of the first Semestre-i of ISC at the Tec de Monterrey Campus Guadalajara, and at the same time, the Security course was proposed to be one of the pillars of the project. Right now we're developing a web application for a primary school, the motive is to help them to reinforce the math course they take with their teacher, by using a computer lab they got at their school.

When we discovered that we were going to work with actual information of REAL kids, we decided to up our game and we tried to develop an app that is as safe as we possibly could. We updated the JavaScript library we were using (Phaser) to their newer version, even though it is not very well documented, just to have our frameworks updated.

We reduced our risks of losing the information by having the information on an Amazon Web Services server, encrypted by the library PassportJS and in a MySQL database. And I know it is not likely for our app to be attacked or mined, but we like to take our data to be safe!

We also made a Terms of Service Document and a Privacy Policy. We are thinking big! Right now it is a social project for one school, but maybe in the future it could grow. Right now you can access to it, and it is available at www.misionmarte.net thanks to our friend Edgar Javier (a..k.a. Killua). All the information is in Amazon Web Services.

We haven't have integrity problems, but I will dedicate a blog entry just for that, so we'll leave that topic for now.

This blog entry is part of a mini series called: What we did on semestre-i on the topic of security.