As applications become intertwined with human life and with more and more bad actors around, the need to secure your applications becomes imperative. A few of the common security threats are detailed here:
- Sensitive data leakage: Some of the data being passed over APIs and stored in databases can be incredibly sensitive (phone numbers, credit card numbers, and so on). Hackers might want to steal this data. Besides preventing such theft, there are often legal regulations on privacy to ensure that data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Companies can be liable for legal injunction if they allow theft from their platforms.
- Denial of Service: Denial of Service attacks attempt to make applications unavailable by overwhelming them with fake/spurious traffic. A particularly nasty form of such an attack is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attack where the traffic is...
