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Posted by: Praveen Joshi
January 28, 2022
of breaches involved a human element
of non-DoS incidents involved ransomware
of breaches involved vulnerability exploitation
of breaches involved credentials
The global nature of the web exposes web applications to a plethora of complexities and attacks.
Then how do you secure your web applications?
The answer is fairly simple:
Know about the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and their remediation practices.
The Open Web Applications Security Project (OWASP) is a non-profit organisation and open community that operates with an aim to better software security.
OWASP Top 10 is a list mentioned on the OWASP’s site that furnishes remediation tips for the top 10 most critical web application risks.
The risks on the list are ranked on the basis of the frequency, extremity and magnitude of
their potential impact.
Broken Access Control is when the attacker can access user accounts as an administrator or user in the system. It generally occurs when the restrictions are not correctly imposed.
How to prevent it?
Cryptographic Failures refers to the compromise of data stored or transmitted. It generally occurs when appropriate encryption is not enforced.
How to prevent it?
Injection occurs when the attacker sends invalid data into the web application. Making it do something it wasn’t actually designed for. The most common injection attacks are SQL injections and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
How to prevent it?
Introduce Static Application Security Testing (SAST) & Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tools to identify the injection flaws.
Insecure design vulnerabilities are caused due to flaws in architecture and designs. It is caused due to lack of security controls & business risk planning while developing the software.
How to prevent it?
Security Misconfiguration occurs from a configuration error or shortcoming. Generally occurs when the latest security features aren’t implemented correctly.
How to prevent it?
This vulnerability refers to the build and run of the components that contain shortcomings while developing an application. Using outdated components is one of the most common reasons for this vulnerability.
How to prevent it?
When certain functions in an application are implemented incorrectly, it allows attackers to compromise passwords & keywords.
How to prevent it?
Software and data integrity failures relate to code and infrastructure that does not protect against integrity violations.
How to prevent it?
Failure to appropriately log & monitor a site leaves it prone to vulnerabilities. This can cause information leakage too.
How to prevent it?
SSRF vulnerabilities let an attacker send crafted requests from the back-end server of a vulnerable application. Fetching a URL results in an increase in instances of SSRF.
How to prevent it?
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