Chapter 1. Security in the World of Web Applications
To provide proper context for the technical discussions later in the book, it seems prudent to first of all explain what the field of security engineering tries to achieve and then to outline why, in this otherwise well-studied context, web applications deserve special treatment. So, shall we?
Information Security in a Nutshell
On the face of it, the field of information security appears to be a mature, well-defined, and accomplished branch of computer science. Resident experts eagerly assert the importance of their area of expertise by pointing to large sets of neatly cataloged security flaws, invariably attributed to security-illiterate developers, while their fellow theoreticians note how all ...
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