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WEB APPLICATION SECURITY
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Advances in web technologies coupled with a changing business environment, mean that web applications are becoming more prevalent in corporate, public and Government services today. Although web applications can provide convenience and efficiency, there are also a number of new security threats, which could potentially pose significant risks to an organisation‟s information technology infrastructure if not handled properly.
The rapid growth in web application deployment has created more complex, distributed IT infrastructures that are harder to secure. For more than a decade, organisations have been dependent upon security measures at the perimeter of the network, such as firewalls, in order to protect IT infrastructures. However, now that more and more attacks are targeting security flaws in the design of web applications, such as injection flaws, traditional network security protection may not be sufficient to safeguard applications from such threats.
These threats originate from non-trusted client access points, session-less protocols, the general complexity of web technologies, and network-layer insecurity. With web applications, client software usually cannot always be controlled by the application owner. Therefore, input from a client running the software cannot be completely trusted and processed directly. An attacker can forge an identity to look like a legitimate client, duplicate a user‟s identity, or create fraudulent messages and cookies
Saylor - Personal Name
1st Edtion
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WEB APPLICATION SECURITY
Information Technology
English
2008
USA
1-26
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