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Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers

2008-08-29 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: Citrix) Gartner summarizes its view on Application Delivery Controllers, evaluates strengths and weaknesses of solutions, and provides Magic Quadrant reporting for a quick comparison across all vendors. Learn from Gartner how you can benefit from an all-in-one device like Citrix NetScaler that delivers the highest levels of availability,...
 
Tags: application delivery controllers, magic quadrant, citrix, citrix netscaler, gartner, quick comparison, all-in-one device, source, solutions
 
 
 
 
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Application Due Care

2008-02-18 08:55:12 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...application is truly built secure inside-out, then there is no need for other security layers". Truly secure application is a far fetched statement 1. What is the application made of? - Complexity 2. How was the application built? - Methodology 3. Where does the application run? - Environment 1. Complexity - Applications are developed using...
 
Tags: application, application due care, development methodology, methodology, application runs, application exist, application security, development, secure application
 
 
 
 
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Automating web application security testing

2007-07-16 11:40:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
 
...applications. An attacker can inject malicious scripts to perform unauthorized actions in the context of the victim's web session. Any web application that serves documents that include data from untrusted sources could be vulnerable to XSS if the untrusted data is not appropriately sanitized. A web application that is vulnerable to XSS can...
 
Tags: web application, application, input, input parameters, accepts user input, xss, xss vulnerabilities, security, security team check
 
 
 
 
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Getting vulnerabilities in the application fixed

2007-10-27 13:20:07 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...application Let us accept the fact that developers are mostly busy focusing their time and effort on the functionality of application. Most of the time the software development manager gets away by using the busy excuse. One approach that I suggest you could is to rank the vulnerabilities based on "severity" (how bad if the vulnerability is...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities, software development manager, vulnerabilities based, risk acceptance form, risk, severitythreat vulnerabilities, form, form acknowledge, application
 
 
 
 
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More on Application Security Metrics

2008-05-08 20:05:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...application - a design defect All this really proves is that determining which of these types of defects to measure, prioritize, and fix is a tricky business and as always, you mileage may vary As Eric clearly points out the threat landscape isn't static either. So, what you think is a priority today might change tomorrow. And, its...
 
Tags: defects, fundamental design defects, fewer defects, architectural defects, implementation defects, security, application, security design, software developers
 
 
 
 
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Another Strategy for Getting Started with Application Security

2008-01-09 19:50:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...application security and secure coding In it he lists 4 approaches for getting started with application security Top-down framework Portfolio Risk Training First Lead with a tool I thought I'd share one more possibility that is a slight tweak on option #4 above I had success with #4, but not using the tools we usually think of for...
 
Tags: security, application security, security program, authorization scheme, authorization, program, tool, approaches, perform risk assessments
 
 
 
 
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An Approach to Web Application Threat Modeling

2008-05-09 00:00:00 by Editor in Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers
 
The aim of this paper, written by Akash Shrivastava, is to identify relevant threats and vulnerabilities in the Web Application and build a Security Framework to help in designing a secure Web Application
 
Tags: web application, secure web application, relevant threats, security framework, akash shrivastava, vulnerabilities, paper, aim
 
 
 
 
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Article: Dissecting and Digging Application Source Code for Vulnerabilities

2007-12-27 13:33:07 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
Application source code scanning for vulnerability detection is an interesting challenge and relatively complex problem as well. There are several security issues which are difficult to identify using
 
Tags: application source code, security issues, vulnerability detection, challenge, complex, difficult
 
 
 
 
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Dissecting and Digging Application Source Code for Vulnerabilities

2007-12-27 13:33:07 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
Application source code scanning for vulnerability detection is an interesting challenge and relatively complex problem as well. There are several security issues which are difficult to identify using
 
Tags: application source code, security issues, vulnerability detection, challenge, complex, difficult