


The sad part is these risks - despite their well-known and well-publicized nature - will persist until developers, security teams and companies start to take them more seriously.ĭo you know how to prevent your company's web apps from falling victim to the barrage of threats they face? From malicious code to vulnerability scanners and penetration testing (pen testing) to buffer overflow, XSS, distributed denial of service ( DDoS) and SQL injection attacks, it is critical to know the tools and policies to properly secure applications and keep them safe from nefarious actors. In fact, several items on Open Web Application Security Project's (OWASP) list of the top 10 web application security risks - including injection flaws, cross-site scripting ( XSS) and broken authentication - were the same in its most recent 2017 version as when it was first released in 2003.
