Most developers don’t start coding with security in mind – but adopting a hacker’s mindset can be a game-changer. This article explores how red-team thinking, a technique from cybersecurity, helps developers build safer applications by anticipating threats before they happen.

The security features of an app are often ignored in the rush to get a new product to market. We naturally tend to focus more on what an app should do, rather than what it shouldn’t. Making sure that an app doesn’t have security flaws is a difficult and potentially expensive process. There are…