Blog · Apr 2026
Security hardening that made releases safer and faster
This post covers the practical controls we added after repeated incidents where reliability and security issues overlapped: token misuse, weak webhook trust boundaries, and unguarded outbound calls.
What changed in production
- JWT enforcement now validates issuer, audience, and expiration before protected actions execute.
- Webhook handlers verify signed payloads to block replay and spoofed event calls.
- Outbound connector and lead-capture URLs pass SSRF safety checks before requests are sent.
- Rate limits were expanded for sensitive action classes to reduce abuse risk and noisy retries.
- Security-sensitive operations now emit immutable audit events for investigation and traceability.
Why this improved velocity
Before these controls, the team spent release windows debugging preventable incidents after deployment. With guardrails in API routes, policy checks, and CI security gates, risky changes are now caught earlier and deployment confidence is materially higher.