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Document new security settings #412

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This commit mentions the new password validation layer as well as other settings made available by Django that administrators can tweak to harden the configuration around HTTPS, cookies and user sessions.

Connects to archivematica/Issues#1317.

@sevein sevein requested review from replaceafill and sromkey July 8, 2021 16:20
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@sevein sevein force-pushed the dev/issue-1317-security-notes branch from 15975fd to 62dd979 Compare July 8, 2021 16:22
* :ref:`Authentication backends <authentication-security>`
* :ref:`Password validation <password-validation>`
* :ref:`Cookie and session security <cookie-session-security>`
* :ref:`Content Security Policy (CSP) <csp-security>`
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"user-security" becomes "authentication-security", which covers the different authentication backends supported, including LDAP, Shibboleth, OIDC and CAS.

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Thanks for separating the content into separate sections 🙇

@sevein sevein merged commit 1bb46d5 into 1.13 Jul 8, 2021
@sevein sevein deleted the dev/issue-1317-security-notes branch July 8, 2021 16:47
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