Application Security Design

In the previous chapter, we discussed data protection and security techniques for cloud hosted applications. In this chapter, we will discuss application security for web-based applications.  

While applications can provide efficiency, risks still remain. This is a result of the fact that there are a number of new security threats which could potentially pose significant risks to an organization's IT infrastructure. It is essential to understand the vulnerabilities commonly found in various applications and provide users with a better experience. In this chapter, we will focus on the security aspect of web-based applications with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) around the corner.

We are going to cover the following topics in this chapter:

• GDPR 
• SQL Injection
• Web Application Firewall and security
• Blacklisting and whitelisting...