Application security
Many critics of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten list view insufficient logging and monitoring, new on the list in 2017, as more of
Introduction It does not take a rocket scientist to understand using components with known vulnerabilities is a very poor choice. While solving this issue ma
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a volunteer group whose goal is to build a more robust Internet. One of their flagship publications is t
Extensible Markup Language External Entities (XXE) is currently ranked fourth on OWASP’s 2017 Top Ten list of application security risks. Extensible Markup L
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a global, nonprofit organization aiming to improve the security of applications and raise awareness of s
The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is one of the world’s most popular web application security testing tools. It is made available for free as an open source p
Microsoft has started developing cross-platform integrations into Windows 10. The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is an example of one these integrations t
Security vulnerabilities that are created through the serialization of sensitive data are well known, yet some developers are still falling into this trap. W
If you have ever been at the epicenter of a security breach relating to online web apps and services, you know just how important your system logs can be as
You might think that your applications are secure and safe from prying eyes, but hackers are using ever more sophisticated methods to capture your user data
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In this series
- New Page Test 4
- New Page test3
- New Page test2
- New Test Page
- DevSecOps: Moving from “shift left” to “born left”
- What’s new in the OWASP Top 10 for 2023?
- DevSecOps: Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CI-CD) tools
- Introduction to DevSecOps and its evolution and statistics
- MongoDB (part 3): How to secure data
- MongoDB (part 2): How to manage data using CRUD operations
- MongoDB (part 1): How to design a schemaless, NoSQL database
- Understanding the DevSecOps Pipeline
- API Security: How to take a layered approach to protect your data
- How to find the perfect security partner for your company
- Security gives your company a competitive advantage
- 3 major flaws of the black-box approach to security testing
- Can bug bounty programs replace dedicated security testing?
- The 7 steps of ethical hacking
- Laravel authorization best practices and tips
- Learn how to do application security right in your organization
- How to use authorization in Laravel: Gates, policies, roles and permissions
- Is your company testing security often enough?
- Authentication vs. authorization: Which one should you use, and when?
- Why your company should prioritize security vulnerabilities by severity
- There’s no such thing as “done” with application security
- Understanding hackers: The insider threat
- Understanding hackers: The 5 primary types of external attackers
- Want to improve the security of your application? Think like a hacker
- 5 problems with securing applications
- Why you should build security into your system, rather than bolt it on
- Why a skills shortage is one of the biggest security challenges for companies
- How should your company think about investing in security?
- How to carry out a watering hole attack: Examples and video walkthrough
- How cross-site scripting attacks work: Examples and video walkthrough
- How SQL injection attacks work: Examples and video walkthrough
- Securing the Kubernetes cluster
- How to run a software composition analysis tool
- How to run a SAST (static application security test): tips & tools
- How to run an interactive application security test (IAST): Tips & tools
- How to run a dynamic application security test (DAST): Tips & tools
- Introduction to Kubernetes security
- Key findings from ESG’s Modern Application Development Security report
- Microsoft’s Project OneFuzz Framework with Azure: Overview and concerns
- Software maturity models for AppSec initiatives
- Best free and open source SQL injection tools [updated 2021]
- Pysa 101: Overview of Facebook’s open-source Python code analysis tool
- Improving web application security with purple teams
- Open-source application security flaws: What you should know and how to spot them
- Android app security: Over 12,000 popular Android apps contain undocumented backdoors
- 13 common web app vulnerabilities not included in the OWASP Top 10