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This Site is Secure — a myth or reality?
One should always strive to increase your knowledge on key problem factors every web application faces on the Internet. — Rahul
A typical web application provides as many features and functionalities as it can to make a user visit regularly. They are highly interactable & can easily read & analyze a visitor’s behavior/interaction to deliver the best possible user experience. Though these features come with many upsides, there is a serious downside looming in the dark.
As application developers, we have to consider all input potentially malicious in order to protect against dangerous threat actors. This can have some serious consequences that are often overseen. If there are no steps taken to properly sanitize input, an attacker can compromise the application for example by interfering with its logic and behavior, thus gaining unauthorized access to its data and functionality. Issues that stem from this are for example XSS, SQLi, LDAP injection, ….
In the upcoming article, we will go through the key problem factors a web application faces & why they do poor jobs addressing these Issues. We won’t be going over specific fixes however as these can range very broad but we will be giving a general indication and some tips on how to mitigate these…
