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In today's digital economy, especially within the rapidly evolving Nigerian tech landscape, building fast is not enough—you must build secure. As a full-stack developer, I see too many businesses launch great applications only to suffer crippling downtime or data loss because they overlooked foundational security steps.
This post breaks down the three non-negotiable security pillars I implement in every single Laravel project to protect client assets and user data.

Pillar 1: Fortifying Against the Frontend Flaws (XSS & CSRF)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) remain two of the most common web application vulnerabilities. Laravel makes prevention easy, but developers must be diligent.
For XSS, I ensure all user-provided input is escaped before rendering using Blade's {{ $variable }} syntax. Never use raw output unless you are absolutely certain of the source. For CSRF, which is critical for protecting forms and state-changing requests (like transactions), Laravel's middleware han