Security Checklist for AI-Generated Apps: Auth, RBAC, Payments
AI can ship features fast, but security must lead. If you're assembling experiences with a workflow automation app builder and an AI web design tool, then planning cloud deployment with Slashdev Cloud, use this checklist to prevent costly gaps.
Identity and authentication
- Use a proven IdP (OIDC/OAuth2). Enforce MFA and device checks for staff consoles.
- Require PKCE for public clients, short tokens, and encrypted, HttpOnly, SameSite=strict cookies.
- Pin exact redirect URIs; block wildcard callbacks. Log every consent event.
- Implement bot and impossible-travel detection before issuing refresh tokens.
- Support passwordless, but rate-limit magic links and bind them to IP and UA.
Authorization and RBAC
- Adopt least privilege by default; deny on uncertainty. Treat "viewer" as read-only across APIs.
- Express policies as code (OPA/Rego or Cedar). Version policies with your app.
- Check authorization at the resource layer, not just the route. Add tenant and environment scope to every query.
- For AI actions, map tool calls to roles; e.g., "Agent" can draft invoices, only "Finance Admin" can post.
- Emit structured audit logs: actor, verb, object, before/after, reason.
Payments and PII
- Never touch raw card data; use vaulted tokens and provider-hosted fields; keep PCI scope minimal.
- Verify webhook signatures, replay-protect with idempotency keys, and re-compute amounts server-side.
- Segregate PII from analytics; encrypt at rest with per-tenant keys and rotate quarterly.
- Add business rules: hold payouts when refund rate or AVS mismatch exceeds thresholds.
Model safety in the loop
- Treat LLM output as untrusted input. Validate against allowlists and schemas.
- Neutralize prompt injection: strip URLs, resolve to internal IDs, and require signed tool invocations.
- Restrict functions exposed to agents; sandbox with timeouts, budgets, and rate limits.
Cloud deployment with Slashdev Cloud
- Enable managed secrets (KMS), mutual TLS service mesh, and WAF with bot scoring.
- Scan images for CVEs, attach SBOMs, and block deploys on critical findings.
- Define IaC guardrails: no public buckets, mandatory TLS 1.2+, and private egress by default.
- Turn on runtime policy: syscall confinement and egress allowlists for AI connectors.
- Backups encrypted, cross-region, with tested RTO/RPO; simulate restore monthly.
Testing and monitoring
- Ship auth fuzz tests, payment contract tests, and RBAC matrix tests in CI.
- Red-team the agent: attempt tool escalation and prompt leakage; fix at the policy layer.
- Observe with trace-level logs, anomaly alerts on auth failures, and payment reconciliation jobs.
Quick start path
- In your workflow automation app builder, define entities and object-level permissions first.
- Use the AI web design tool for UI scaffolding, but bind controls to server-enforced policies.
- Integrate payments with signed webhooks and server-side totals; ban client-side price authority.
- Finish with cloud deployment with Slashdev Cloud guardrails and continuous scans enabled.
Security is a product feature. Measure, default, and ship.
