Navigating the Sandbox Buffet

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Buggy software is a fact of life, and preventing all security vulnerabilities is near impossible. Organizations often have no choice but to run potentially risky software, such as parsing, thumbnailing, or compression libraries, within their infrastructure to do even basic work. Such software is frequently implemented in memory-unsafe languages, by third-parties, and is seldom designed to handle hostile user input. It’s no surprise that security news is replete with bug names like “ImageTragick.”