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Restful Java Web Services Security

You're reading from   Restful Java Web Services Security Secure your RESTful applications against common vulnerabilities with this book and eBook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783980109
Length 144 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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The importance of security

The management of security is one of the main aspects to consider when designing applications.

No matter what, neither the functionality nor the information of organizations can be exposed to all users without any kind of restriction. Consider the case of a human resource management application that allows you to consult the wages of employees, for example: if the company manager needs to know the salary of one of their employees, it is not something of great importance. However, in the same context, imagine that one of the employees wants to know the salary of their colleagues; if access to this information is completely open, it can generate problems among employees with varied salaries.

An even more critical example can be the case where the bank XYZ increases a bank balance every time a customer or a third party makes a deposit into one of their accounts using an ATM. The IT manager envisions that this functionality could be common, and decides to implement...

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