Web Application Security
Why Web Application Security?
There is no doubt that every business is integrating web applications or already done so to allow employees and customers to interact on daily basis. This can be an employee who is checking his or her emails or a customer placing an order thru a shopping cart application. The first problem is that we cannot distinguish between a normal user and a criminal one. The second problem, applications are written by humans therefore are susceptible to bugs and errors.
The Threats
Most of the threats are errors while coding the application and wrong assumptions by the programmer how his application will be executed within the browser. Other threats are relay on patch management or system misconfiguration. As a reference we are using the Top 10 threats that were defined by the OWASP organization for 2010:
A1: Injections
A2: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
A3: Broken Authentication and Session Management
A4: Insecure Direct Object References
A5: Cross-Site Request Forgery
A6: Security Misconfiguration
A7: Insecure Cryptographic Storage
A8: Failure to Restrict URL Access
A9: Insufficient Transport Layer Protection
A10: Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards
The Solution
2Secure has developed a solution that has three stages that can help and mitigate the threats:
√ Preform risk assessments BEFORE & AFTER web application is in production
√ Based on the results from the risk assessment, implement mitigating controls.
√ Integrate safeguards during the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) BEFORE the application is
published on the Internet or Intranet.
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