1) Application security is the use of software, hardware, and procedural methods to protect applications from external attackers.
1) Teaching the details of a subject. With regard to software, training
provides instruction for each command and function in an application.
Security measures built into applications and a sound application security routine minimize the likelihood that hackers will be able to manipulate applications and access, steal, modify, or delete sensitive data. Once an afterthought in software design, security is becoming an increasingly important concern during development as applications become more frequently accessible over networks and are, as a result, vulnerable to a wide variety of threats.
Actions taken to ensure application security are sometimes called countermeasures. The most basic software countermeasure is an application firewall that limits the execution of files or the handling of data by specific installed programs. The most common hardware countermeasure is a router that can prevent the IP address of an individual computer from being directly visible on the Internet. Other countermeasures include conventional firewalls, encryption/decryption programs, anti-virus programs, spyware detection/removal programs, and biometric authentication systems
.Application security can be enhanced by rigorously defining enterprise assets, identifying what each application does (or will do) with respect to these assets, creating a security profile for each application, identifying and prioritizing potential threats, and documenting adverse events and the actions taken in each case. This process is known as threat modeling. In this context, a threat is any potential or actual adverse event that can compromise the assets of an enterprise, including both malicious events, such as a denial-of-service (DOS) attack, and unplanned events, such as the failure of a storage device
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* SQL injection
* Cross-site scripting (XSS) This flaw has become the most popular among attackers, according to a recent study
* Buffer overflow
* Directory traversal
* Denial of Service (DoS)
* Man-in-the-middle
* Session hijacking
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