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Web Application Security — How to Minimize Prevalent Risk of Attacks

26 November 2009 No Comment

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  1. – Vulnerabilities in web applications are now the largest vector of enterprise security attacks.
  2. – At year end, 74% of web application vulnerabilities had no available patch for remediation.

Many organizations have discovered that these attacks evade traditional enterprise network defenses unless new precautions are taken. To help you understand how to minimize these risks, This guide was written as a primer to web application security. The guide surveys typical web application vulnerabilities, compares options for detection, and introduces methods to address the issue including an on demand service that automates detection of the most prevalent vulnerabilities in custom web applications.

Stories about exploits that compromise sensitive data frequently mention culprits such as “cross-site scripting,” “SQL injection,” and “buffer overflow.” Vulnerabilities like these fall often outside the traditional expertise of network security managers.

To help you understand how to minimize these risks, Qualys provides this guide as a primer to web application security. The guide covers:

  1. Typical web application vulnerabilities
  2. Comparison of options for web application vulnerability detection
  3. QualysGuard Web Application Scanning solution

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