Security Risk Assessment and Management in Web Application Security   30 Nov 2005 14:55
Security risk assessment and security risk management have become vital tasks for security officers and IT managers. Corporations face increased levels of risk almost daily: from software vulnerabilities hidden in their business-technology systems to hackers and cyber crooks trying to steal proprietary corporate intellectual property, including sensitive customer information. An ever-growing list of government regulations aimed to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of many types of financial and health-related information also is increasing IT risks and making a comprehensive security risk assessment a modern day corporate necessity.

Hacker Protection for Web Applications   04 Oct 2005 09:50
Your Web applications can be the most important and most vulnerable entry point into your organization, and, as such, ensuring adequate hacker protection in your Web applications can be critical. A Web application not only includes the code that creates your Web site, but also the architectural components necessary to make a Web site available and useful to the public - both of which can make a Web site vulnerable to attacks like SQL injection or cross site scripting (XSS).