Tuning My Content Security Policy

In my Getting Started With a Content Security Policy post, I setup a report only CSP policy so that I could try and identify things that could test out a policy before implementing it. It is time to parse through the results and see what needs to be updated in my deployed policy. The original policy was very simple default-src https Inspecting The Violations I started trying to look at the current violations and I think it was clear that I had a rather permissive Content Security Policy because nothing much was being blocked....

October 16, 2022 · 2 min · Scott

Getting Started With a Content Security Policy

I recently needed to setup Content Security Policy (CSP) on a website and I couldn’t think of where to get started. The first question that came to mind was what all content do I allow and how do I test everything without having to look through all of the code on the site. This is where the Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only header can come into play. The short version is that this allows you to create a policy in report only mode and you can collect the results at the endpoint specified via the report-uri directive....

October 2, 2022 · 3 min · Scott