The TutsPlus.com site has continued their "Building Your Startup" tutorial series with this latest article covering the "security basics" you'll need to adequately protect your application. This tutorial touches on both the server-level and code-level security aspects.

In today's episode, we'll dive into the basics of web server security. I'll cover securing the Linux VPS running Meeting Planner and some basic Yii security. In the next episode, I'll dive more into programmatic Yii application security.

The article starts off with the server side of things, introducing hosting options, keeping the server updated, configuring SSH for logins, setting up a firewall and SSL. With that solid base in place, it then starts on the code side covering the built-in functionality used to secure the backend and frontend functionality.