| More than four out of every five (85 percent) U.S. | | | | 6. Information Leakage and Improper Error Handling |
| businesses have experienced a data breach, | | | | 7. Broken Authentication and Session Management |
| according to a recent study by Colchester, | | | | 8. Insecure Cryptographic Storage |
| Conn.-based law firm Scott + Scott, putting millions of | | | | 9. Insecure Communications |
| consumers' Social Security numbers and other | | | | 10. Failure to Restrict URL Access |
| sensitive information in the hands of criminals. | | | | Web Application Security Consortium Most Common |
| If a website's server and applications are not | | | | Vulnerabilities Report |
| protected from security vulnerabilities, identities, credit | | | | The Web Application Security Consortium (Wasc) |
| card information, and billions of dollars are at risk. | | | | reported the top five web application vulnerabilities by |
| Unfortunately, firewalls do not provide enough | | | | testing 31,373 sites. |
| protection. | | | | According to the Gartner Group, "97% of the over |
| Firewalls, ids, ips Are Not Enough | | | | 300 web sites audited were found vulnerable to web |
| Attackers are well-aware of the valuable information | | | | application attack," and "75% of the cyber attacks |
| accessible through Web applications, and their | | | | today are at the application level." |
| attempts to get at it are often unwittingly assisted by | | | | Web application vulnerability assessment |
| several important factors. Conscientious organizations | | | | From the information above it's clear that most |
| carefully protect their perimeters with intrusion | | | | e-commerce websites are wide open to attack and |
| detection systems and firewalls, but these firewalls | | | | easy victims when targeted. Intruders need only to |
| must keep ports 80 and 443 (ssl) open to conduct | | | | exploit a single vulnerability. |
| online business. These ports represent open doors to | | | | A web application scanner, which protects applications |
| attackers, who have figured out thousands of ways to | | | | and servers from hackers, must provide an automated |
| penetrate Web applications. | | | | internet security service that searches for software |
| Network firewalls are designed to secure the internal | | | | vulnerabilities within web applications. |
| network perimeter, leaving organizations vulnerable to | | | | A web application scan should crawl the entire |
| various application attacks. Intrusion Prevention and | | | | website, analyze in-depth each & every file, and |
| Detection Systems (ids/ips) do not provide thorough | | | | display the entire website structure. The scanner has |
| analysis of packet contents. Applications without an | | | | to perform an automatic audit for common network |
| added layer of protection increase the risk of harmful | | | | security vulnerabilities while launching a series of |
| attacks and extreme vulnerabilities. | | | | simulated web attacks. Web Security Seal and free |
| Extreme Vulnerabilities | | | | trial should be available. |
| In the past, security breaches occurred at the network | | | | A web application vulnerability Assessment should |
| level of the corporate systems. Today, hackers are | | | | execute continuous dynamic tests combined with |
| manipulating web applications inside the corporate | | | | simulation web-application attacks during the scanning |
| firewall. This entry enables them to access sensitive | | | | process. |
| corporate and customer data. The standard security | | | | The web application scanner must have a continually |
| measures for protecting network traffic do not protect | | | | updated service database. A website security test |
| against web application level attacks. | | | | should identify the security vulnerabilities and |
| Owasp's Top 10 Web Application Security | | | | recommend the optimally matched solution. |
| Vulnerabilities 2007 | | | | The vulnerability check has to deliver an executive |
| Open Web Application Security Project (Owasp), an | | | | summary report to management and a detailed report |
| organization that focuses on improving the security of | | | | to the technical teams with the severity levels of each |
| application software, has put together a list of the top | | | | vulnerability. |
| 10 web application security vulnerabilities. | | | | It is recommended that the detailed report include an |
| 1. Cross Site Scripting (xss) | | | | in-depth technical explanation of each vulnerability as |
| 2. Injection Flaws | | | | well as appropriate recommendations. The website |
| 3. Malicious File Execution | | | | security test will conduct subsequent vulnerability scans |
| 4. Insecure Direct Object Reference | | | | and generate trend analysis reports that allow the |
| 5. Cross Site Request Forgery (Csrf) | | | | customer to compare tests and track progress. |