CHAPTER 5: EMERGING TRENDS
As more economic activity is performed over interconnected networks, the sophistication of applications is increasing; at the same time, attacks are also increasing in sophistication.
Emerging landscape of applications
Traditional Internet applications are getting a facelift today with rich Internet applications. Commonly known as âWeb 2.0â applications, these applications support a rich browser-based interface using JavaScript libraries in the browser. These applications (also called Ajax applications â asynchronous JavaScript and XML â to show their foundation in JavaScript libraries) allow incremental page updates, and user interface features commonly associated with thick-client applications.
Web 2.0 ...
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