Application Security.... Let's Simplify the traits and understand the cause of vulnerabilities!!

Firewalls and IPs are typically IP traffic, infrastructure & network security. They do not guard against application security attacks & Web application attacks.

So, how do you guard against web application attacks?

We have heard many times that there is no way to defend against these attacks. The best way for us to have a properly written application to avoid these issues.

Let’s go down to the root cause and bottom line to figure out! Why do we have application security issues? Obviously, because of the vulnerability into the application, that hacker can try to find and try to exploit.

It is impossible for developers to manually QA the application by themselves. Therefore you need a professional tool. So only way to guard against application attacks is by a process of quality assurance. To find the vulnerability in the application development, fix them so that, by the time your application goes to production and hackers attack your site, is harder for them to find the vulnerability. So that, they cannot come in. 

Why Vulnerability occurs?

IT department find their selves in significant pressure to deliver a new application and very often security majors being taken at the end of the project rather than taken care of at the very beginning. That’s the reason it seems that either the process doesn’t exist or it doesn’t being followed.

Firewalls offer little or no security 

• Network firewalls do not protect a web application they are designed to protect network level security issues.
• Website traffic and access may be logged, but the details of the web traffic are rarely investigated.
• Many malicious activities do not show abnormal traffic or behavior.

Security Risk 

• External hosting provider
• 3^rd party application to the site
• Information disclosure (Social engineering)
• Old information, the site being online
• Poorly managed web application access 

Let’s discuss the hacker’s strategy for better understanding 

When hackers attack an application, is not the web application they want. They don’t care about it, but they try to find a way to poke through an application, they got a way through your application infrastructure to steal your database.

The main reason for these problems today is typically is that. Because security which we have today is the network infrastructure side.

Professional that we have for security is system administrators, network administrators who typically have no experience in application development. And developers typically don’t know and don’t care about security. So here we have a big gap, but unfortunately, the hacker is the one person, they know both infra & application but they don’t work for you.

So simply it’s the best solution to better QA your application before the hacker QA it for you.

It is fair to say that security is not important for many organizations? If yes, why? If no, are there stages and levels of awareness that companies place on security?

There are two reasons people say that!

1.  Budget: security is cost, it’s trouble in which we need money to spend. Some people don’t like to spend on this.
2. Because of ignorance: People don’t understand that what the biggest obstacles the security vendors having more sales. They don’t understand the solution it supposes to provide.  

Frankly, no one of us tries to buy the service; there are minimum and chippers firewalls in which we put the money because it’s less expensive.

Over time people realized & understand the electronic intellectual assets are important. The application and services they do business over are important and they need to guard against this.

Also, security is a PR and marketing issue, People want to know that you are secure. If you are bent it’s not satisfied to be secure. Nobody going to buy this nor they are interested to do business with you.

So there are many reasons for virtual integrity, many organizations have come to an age where they appreciate the need for security.

Of course, it is the reason why the security infrastructure is very important and it takes huge priority in Foreign counties in comparison to Asian specific countries.

It would not be wrong if, I say that Indian It industries are adopting these security majors

and developing their self in a better way in terms of application security.