Extreme Vulnerabilities

[PamelaRoosh]

Web Application Level Attacks is the Achilles heel. In the past, security breaches occurred at the network level of the corporate systems. Today, hackers are manipulating web applications inside the corporate firewall. This entry enables them to access sensitive corporate and customer data. An experienced hacker can break into most commercial websites with even the smallest hole in a Web Development Companies website application code. These sophisticated attacks have become increasingly threatening to organizations.
The standard security measures for protecting network traffic do not protect against web application level attacks. Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), an organization that focuses on improving the security of application software, has put together a list of the top 10 web application security vulnerabilities. 1. Cross Site Scripting (XSS) 2. Injection Flaws 3. Malicious File Execution 4. Insecure Direct Object Reference 5. Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) 6. Information Leakage and Improper Error Handling 7. Broken Authentication and Session Management 8. Insecure Cryptographic Storage 9. Insecure Communications 10. Failure to Restrict URL Access

Web Application Security Consortium Most Common Vulnerabilities Report The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) an international group of experts, industry practitioners, and organizational representatives who produce open source and widely agreed upon best practice security standards for the World Wide Web reported the top five web application vulnerabilities by testing 31,373 sites. According to the Gartner Group, 97% of the over 300 web sites audited were found vulnerable to web application attack, and 75% of the cyber attacks today are at the application level. From the information above it’s clear that most e-commerce websites are wide open to attack and easy victims when targeted. While the security posture of some industries is stronger than others, the difference is insignificant when it comes to actually preventing a website compromise because intruders need only to exploit a single vulnerability. A web application scanner, which protects applications and servers from hackers, must provide an automated security service that searches for software vulnerabilities within web applications. A web application scanner should crawl the entire website, analyze in-depth each & every file, and display the entire website structure. The scanner has to perform an automatic audit for common security vulnerabilities while launching a series of simulated web attacks. Web Security Seal and free trial should be available.

Most systems are vulnerable to thousands of known risk factors. A web application vulnerability Assessment should execute continuous dynamic tests combined with simulation web-application attacks during the scanning process. The web application scanner must have the ability to validate security breaches and risks against a continually updated service database provide real-time vital business solutions. A website security test should identify the security vulnerabilities and recommend the optimally matched solution. The fix or workaround solution should be identified and implemented when you need it - not after it's too late. Once the vulnerability scan is completed, the vulnerability check has to deliver an executive summary report to management and a detailed report to the technical teams. Both reports should list the vulnerabilities found along with the severity levels of each vulnerability.