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Ensuring Cross-Site Request Forgery protection is active and configured for your specific domain. Conclusion

Restrict your application to only respond to specific domain names or IP addresses. This prevents HTTP Host header attacks. production-settings

In development, convenience is king. You want verbose error logs, open ports, and easy access. In production, every convenience is a potential vulnerability. Ensuring Cross-Site Request Forgery protection is active and

The most robust way to manage production-settings is via . Following the 12-Factor App methodology, your code should be agnostic of its environment. In development, convenience is king

This is the first and most vital setting. DEBUG = False (or its equivalent in your framework) must be absolute. Keeping debug mode on in production can leak source code, environment variables, and stack traces to malicious actors.

Ensure settings are configured so the application doesn't store data on the local disk. In production, instances are often destroyed and recreated; use S3 or similar cloud storage for media and static files. 3. Monitoring and Observability

Production is the only place where strict web security is non-negotiable. Your settings should enforce: