The Importance of Application Security

For all the talk and attention that Internet security gets these days, for some reason it often takes a back seat to other considerations during application design. Maybe it’s because the nonfunctional requirements often are overlooked due to the importance that is placed on “the product working like it’s supposed to.” Or maybe it’s because of the overall complexity of designing and building a proper security framework. The amount of planning and forethought for security planning and construction can consume a large amount of a project’s cycle. The irony about an application’s security framework is that if it’s working like it’s supposed to, no one will notice it. When it’s not working like it should, everyone ...

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