With an increase in web applications on the World Wide Web (WWW), the concerns over application security have increased as well. Now, the first question that arises in our mind is why we need security-enabled applications--the answer to this is quite obvious. But what are its essential principles? Following are the principles that we should keep in mind:
- A hacker can easily exploit your application if he gets familiar with the language in which the application got created. That's why, we enable techniques such as CORS to secure our code.
- Access to the application and its data should be given to very limited people in your organization.
- A way of authentication, authorization secures your application from both, the WWW as well as within your private network.
All these factors, or as I would say, principles, drive us to...