Web application security -- five ways to improve your approach

Web applications remain one of the most targeted areas for threat actors. According to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report, web application attacks were behind 26 percent of all successful attacks during the twelve months covered. Yet while the methods for attacking web applications are well known and understood, as evidenced by the work that the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has done on their Top Ten list over the years, many companies still find hardening their applications challenging. Authorization and access control describe the biggest set of challenges identified by OWASP in their most recent Top 10 list (2021)… [Continue Reading]