Considering the fact that most people think of objects running in their browsers as fairly transitory, there’s a good chance that project managers have a tendency to downplay the role of security when it comes to them. Browsers have become increasingly complex, and they’ve gotten to the point where it might be more accurate to call a majority of modern browser application platforms in their own right. Some of the more extreme examples have essentially mutated into their own operating systems.
That’s why so many professional software development vendors are now looking at tightening up their code. One of the major ways they’re doing so is by ensuring that a large percentage of it runs in a JavaScript-based sandbox. Most browsers now ship with a dedicated virtual machine that’s designed to run JavaScript code as though it were running on a non-existent piece of native hardware.
Any software development vendor that moves a significant portion of their workflow over to this widget will help to keep malware away from the rest of the machine as a whole. If a bad actor were to grab hold of this VM, then they wouldn’t really be able to escape it and do much damage outside of it. Vendors are also working to deprecate older technologies that no longer receive regular security updates.
That’s helping to further lock down workflows that might otherwise have been at the mercy of dated dependencies. Working with a professional vendor might even help to cut back on the number of libraries an organization needs by using this method of scaling systems back.
