Sqreen’s Application Security Management for the Go language
After performance monitoring (APM), error and log monitoring it’s time to add a security component into your app. Sqreen’s microagent automatically monitors sensitive app’s routines, blocks attacks and reports actionable infos to your dashboard.
Sqreen provides automatic defense against attacks:
- Protect with security modules: RASP (Runtime Application Self-Protection), in-app WAF (Web Application Firewall), Account takeovers and more.
- Sqreen’s modules adapt to your application stack with no need of configuration.
- Prevent attacks from the OWASP Top 10 (Injections, XSS and more), 0-days, data Leaks, and more.
- Create security automation playbooks that automatically react against your advanced business-logic threats.
For more details, visit sqreen.com
Quick start
- Use the middleware function for the Go web framework you use:
- net/http
- Gin
- EchoIf your framework is not listed, it is usually possible to use instead the standard
net/http
middleware. If not, please, let us know by creating an issue.
- Compile your program with Sqreen Sqreen’s dynamic configuration of your protection is made possible thanks to Go instrumentation. It is safely performed at compilation time by the following instrumentation tool. Install the following instrumentation tool and compile your program using it in order to enable Sqreen.
- Use
go install
to compile the instrumentation tool: $ go install github.com/sqreen/go-agent/sdk/sqreen-instrumentation-tool By default, the resultingsqreen-instrumentation-tool
tool is installed in thebin
directory of theGOPATH
. You can find it usinggo env GOPATH
. - Configure the Go toolchain to use it: Use the instrumentation tool using the go options
-a -toolexec /path/to/sqreen-instrumentation-tool
. It can be done either in your Go compilation command lines or by setting theGOFLAGS
environment variable. For example, the following two commands are equivalent: $ go build -a -toolexec $(go env GOPATH)/bin/sqreen-instrumentation-tool my-project $ env GOFLAGS=”-a -toolexec $(go env GOPATH)/bin/sqreen-instrumentation-tool” go build my-project
- Use
- Signup to Sqreen to get your app credentials: app_name: Your Go app name token: your token This file can be stored in your current working directory when starting the executable, the same directory as your app’s executable file, or in any other path by defining the configuration file location into the environment variable
SQREEN_CONFIG_FILE
.
Congratulations, your Go web application is now protected by Sqreen!
Advanced integration
Optionally, use the SDK to perform user monitoring or custom security events you would like to track and possibly block.
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