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Understanding Web application security challenges.

3/17/2008
Provided by: IBM
As businesses grow increasingly dependent upon Web applications, these complex entities grow more difficult to secure. Most companies equip their Web sites with firewalls, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and network and host security, but the majority of attacks are on applications themselves - and these technologies cannot prevent them. This paper explains what you can do to help protect your organization, and it discusses an approach for improving your organization's Web application security. Includes:
  • What makes Web applications vulnerable?
  • Typical Web application attacks
  • Basic guidelines for providing security for Web applications
  • Understanding the Web application lifecycle
  • Security testing throughout the application lifecycle
  • Considering the right testing approaches
  • Four strategic best practices for protecting Web applications
  • Numerous tables

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