How Does Setting Up CORS Help Prevent Cyber Attacks?

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is key to making websites work the way we want them to. How does it protect us from cyber-attacks?

Ezra Bowman
codeburst
Published in
6 min readMar 3, 2021

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The short answer is IT doesn’t.

Have you ever seen this error?

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Systems Architect. Software Engineer. Cloud, Code, Technology, DevOps. Automate Everything. I blog at https://NoDeployFriday.com