Overview of Security Issues for Web Applications

Whether you plan on providing e-commerce or just enabling your employees, providing access to services through the Internet offers many competitive advantages over alternative methods. The lower costs of performing transactions, coupled with the opportunity of customizing the user interface depending on customer preferences and buying habits, are too great for businesses to ignore.

However, by exposing internal applications to the Internet, businesses are taking on many risks not normally associated with standalone applications. Companies not familiar with these risks will introduce security late into their development cycle, if at all. According to the CERT Coordination Center (http://www.cert.org ...

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