NextSaaS: "Would Your SaaS Pass a Security Audit? (Honest Checklist)

Would Your SaaS Pass a Security Audit? (Honest Checklist) When I ran OWASP ZAP against my own app, I expected a clean report. I'd been careful about security from day one — parameterized queries, proper authentication, HTTPS everywhere. Instead, I found 3 medium-severity issues in the first scan. That scan taught me something important: there's a massive gap between "secure" and "provably secure." The first means you haven't been hacked yet. The second means you can demonstrate to an auditor, a customer, or a regulator that your systems are hardened, logged, and defensible. Here's the checklist I built after going through this process. Score yourself honestly. Encryption at Rest — Not Just HTTPS Most developers stop at HTTPS. "Data is encrypted in transit — we're good." Auditors ask a different question: Is PII encrypted in your database? If someone gains database access — a leaked backup, a compromised admin account, a SQL injection you missed — can they read your users' email address