Common Challenges in Securing Web Applications
Security vulnerabilities are a common problem in many web applications. The number of vulnerabilities added to the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) kept increasing between 2017 and 2022.
Organizations must step up their efforts to secure their applications. They must pay more attention to application security, particularly in the cloud. As a CCSP candidate, you will be tasked with how to help organizations and their development teams tackle this massive problem of vulnerabilities.
Common Application Vulnerabilities
Threat actors try to exploit open vulnerabilities in applications. Most of these vulnerabilities—82% of them—are found in application code. The following vulnerabilities are listed in the OWASP Top 10:
- Injection
- Broken access control
- Cryptographic failures
- Security misconfigurations
- Identification and authentication failures
- Server-side request forgery
- Vulnerable or...
