doc: add note on subdomains vs paths

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Girish Ramakrishnan
2017-04-13 16:11:12 -07:00
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@@ -399,8 +399,8 @@ This section lists various security measures in place to protect the Cloudron.
HTTPS.
* The Cloudron automatically installs and renews certificates for your apps as needed. Should
installation of certificate fail for reasons beyond it's control, Cloudron admins will get a notification about it.
* Cloudron sets the `Strict-Transport-Security` header to protect apps against downgrade attacks
and cookie hijacking
* Cloudron sets the `Strict-Transport-Security` header (HSTS) to protect apps against downgrade attacks
and cookie hijacking.
* Cloudron has A+ rating for SSL from [SSL Labs](https://cloudron.io/blog/2017-02-22-release-0.102.0.html).
## App isolation
@@ -412,6 +412,8 @@ This section lists various security measures in place to protect the Cloudron.
* Apps are run with an AppArmor profile that disables many system calls and restricts access to `proc`
and `sys` filesystems.
* Most apps are run as non-root user. In the future, we intend to implement user namespaces.
* Each app is run in it's own subdomain as opposed to sub-paths. This ensures that XSS vulnerabilities
in one app doesn't [compromise](https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/24155/preventing-insecure-webapp-on-subdomain-compromise-security-of-main-webapp) other apps.
## Email