4.1 Explain the importance of application security
No amount of network hardening, auditing, or user training can compensate for bad programming. Solid application security is essential to the long-term survival of any organization. Application security begins with secure coding and design, which is then maintained over the life of the software through testing and patching.
Fuzzing
Fuzzing is a software testing technique that generates inputs for targeted programs. The goal of fuzz testing is to discover input sets that cause errors, failures, and crashes, or to discover other unknown defects in the targeted program. Basically, a fuzz tester brute force attack generates inputs within given parameters far in excess of what a normal, regular user ...
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