Discovering Dangerous Business Application Vulnerabilities
Enterprise security consultants may spend their days at mid-size or large organizations; they may perform their assignments from anywhere in the world. Nevertheless, they possess a common assignment: to better manage the risks related to their organizational infrastructure. More and more, corporate Web application security plays a significant role to performing that objective. Most corporations place a great deal of trust in their Web page design and development departments. Very often this trust is unfounded or not scrutinized closely enough.
Without a doubt, businesses depend on business Web applications as a primary means of doing business. Organizational applications generally incorporate the use of forms to accept personal information. A very simple case in point may be, acquire credit card numbers and social security numbers or company secrets and user satisfaction assessments. A business Web designer and developer in Anchorage, Alaska, for example, is assigned to generate many classes of information gathering applications.
Unfortunately, the increased use of corporate Web applications leaves the organization open to security flaws that developers may not have anticipated. As the number and complexity of business Web applications grows, so do the number of vulnerabilities brought into your organizational Web dominion. Crucial Web attacks project the focus on corporate application weaknesses. Literally, the amount of insecurities associated with enterprise level Web applications has businesses all over the world scrambling for solutions to these hot points. And we shouldn’t just focus on the Web application. The database management team’s duties should also be monitored.
While hackers and disgruntled users become more clever,
neglecting to sufficiently lock down your corporate Web applications can leave your corporation exposed to costly mistakes. These security breaches can place at jeopardy sensitive client information or the introduction of malware or viruses.
Specific company risks of these types of invasions include:
Reduction of revenue and business opportunities;
Unacceptable media coverage;
Company loss of reputation;
Unwelcome scrutiny from consumer advocates; and
Litigation.
Moreover, if your corporation is legally under the obligation to secure the privacy and security of personal information, and cyberpunks gain access to this sensitive information, your business can run the risk noncompliance with any of several mandated legislative requirements, including Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and Sarbanes-Oxley, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The PCI DSS, To take a simple example, was developed to safeguard card information by maintaining safe and secure electronic commerce. Later updates to the PCI standard introduce increased conditions for companies to protect Web-facing applications or suffer from possible noncompliance. Everyone today expects organizations to practice due diligence when it comes to public facing Web applications.
The moral of the story is that, as a manager, you must remain vigilant to the ever-present security threats against not only your Web applications, but also your other systems, such as your databases and physical data.
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