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Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance

You're reading from   Enterprise Cloud Security and Governance Efficiently set data protection and privacy principles

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788299558
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. The Fundamentals of Cloud Security FREE CHAPTER 2. Defense in Depth Approach 3. Designing Defensive Network Infrastructure 4. Server Hardening 5. Cryptography Network Security 6. Automation in Security 7. Vulnerability, Pentest, and Patch Management 8. Security Logging and Monitoring 9. First Responder 10. Best Practices

A web application firewall

Most organizations have to leave port 80 or 443 open so that users can connect to the website. This means that both genuine users, as well as attackers, can connect to the web application that is running on the servers.

Since most applications, in turn, run on servers and connect to the database, vulnerabilities in the application can lead to an attacker gaining partial control of the server, as well as reading the credentials or sensitive data stored in the database.

This is one of the reasons why the necessity to protect web applications has risen and one of the solutions other than secure coding is Web Application Firewall (WAF).

WAF is optimized for protecting web applications against various types of attacks. WAF is a must-have tool in today's environment.

They are exclusively designed to understand the web application logic that includes HTTP...

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