Securing Web Applications
Tara Kissoon, CISA, CISSP
Visa Inc.

Objectives
The participant will learn more about:
How to integrate OWASP Top 10 to mitigate
Web application security vulnerabilities.

What is an application?
An application:
– Defined as user software
– Is made up of a number of files, including configuration
files, executable programs and data files.
– Is layered above an operating system and uses the
functionality of the operating system to deliver its
service.
– The operating system provides a number of
mechanisms used for securing the application.
– Contains security functionality that uses mechanisms
not residing within the operating system.