Over the years the Internet has changed the way business gets done. Web-based applications are enabling interactions among customers, employees and partners. Unfortunately, many web based applications have inherent vulnerabilities and security-oriented design flaws. Internet based attacks exploit these weaknesses to compromise sites and gain access to critical systems which can lead to financial losses and also compromising of organization's confidential information Most organizations today have some degree of online security infrastructure - implementing firewalls, IDS, Operating Systems hardening etc. but have overlooked the need to secure and verify integrity of their web applications. This is also a very convenient channel for a hacker to access confidential information than overcoming a network barrier. |