Owasp And Wasc Help System Owners To Be Up To Date With Their Application Security

WWW is the basic fabric of Information technology and everyone endeavors to keep

it secure as it holds all kinds of information, every one of them important and critical at one point of time or user end, and it is also a fact that intentional and unintentional threats do occur for the security of Websites, Web applications and other web services.

Web application security is the prime area among the security aspects related to Information technology and it encompasses the areas of

Web design

Web development

Web deployment

Upgrading initiatives and

Maintenance aspects

The above areas forming the life cycle of a Web application, the efforts on Web application security starts from the Security Policy of the organization which governs the particular web application at every stage of the above life cycle, security policy being one to clearly define the dos and donts of all the people concerned with any of these stages of application, which might include authentications, rights of access and modification authorities.

Web application security is also subjected to vulnerabilities which give way to threats to security, vulnerability being system susceptibility or flaw, attacker accessibility to the flaw and attackers ability to take advantage of the flaw, and vulnerability management is an essential initiative for securing Web applications.

Web designers and Web architects do develop a number of counter measures to combat vulnerabilities and threats to Web Application Security and these counter measures are taken right from the design stage to moment to moment monitoring initiatives taken by Web application users.

To establish reliable Web Application Security a number of initiatives have been in service, particularly two of them are highly functional.

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a standards establishing agency for Web Application Security which publishes norms for web applications and its latest OWASP Top 10 gives assistance in knowing about the details of major threats to Web applications that have emerged over a period of time to the current times.

Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) is another forum which collects a wide data base of Web Hacking incidents and functioning as an open source for best practice documents relating to Web Application Security.

Penetration testing is a process of making an entry to the system application by the testing agency, which may not be authorized to interfere with the system, mainly to test if the system has vulnerabilities where an outsider can enter and exploit and the security issues uncovered through these tests are presented to the system user, for taking appropriate action to establish Web application security in the system.

Penetration testing is very valuable for several reasons, prime of it is to bring alert to the system owner of the vulnerabilities that the system requires to be rectified.

by: Torrid Networks

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