Web Application Security

Enterprise websites and applications today are facing increasingly advanced and intelligent attacks from different sources such as public APIs, cloud, third-party integrations, botnets, SSL traffic, etc. This means that organizations need to step up their web security in order to adequately predict, assess and counter such threats.

Especially due to the sensitive nature of data and information that passes through or is stored on business-critical web and apps, it is crucial to ensure the web security measures are capable enough to minimize an enterprise’s security vulnerabilities without hampering the day-to-day operations.

Web application security challenges

Implementing powerful web security measures are critical for all businesses, but not all of them are able to achieve this goal. This is due to various challenges that come in the way of end-to-end web security, most common of which are:

Incorrect or Outdated Security Configurations

This includes scenarios where website security is comprised due to human errors or outdated security measure such as not using updated software or plugins, not changing the default passwords and keys, etc. 

Inadequate Protection of Sensitive Data

This is usually a result of personnel error or incompetence in employing proper security measures such as encrypting all sensitive data and passwords, adding security flags on sensitive cookies, etc.

Injection Flaws

Injection flaws can prove to be costly mistakes as these are commonly used by hackers to hack and infect websites. This can result in loss or leakage of sensitive data and must be avoided.

Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

As a result of this vulnerability, an attacker can inject client-side scripts into a webpage to gain sensitive information, activate Trojans, and access accounts among other things.

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks

In this, attackers overload a targeted server/infrastructure using varied types of attack traffic. This leads to the server becoming sluggish and unable to process incoming requests effectively, including denying of service to legitimate users. 

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