In this report, we put this area of application security understanding to the test by measuring how various web programming languages and development frameworks actually perform in the field. To which classes of attack are they most prone, how often and for how long; and, how do they fare against popular alternatives? Is it really true that the most popular modern languages and frameworks yield similar results in production websites?
By analyzing the vulnerability assessment results of more than 30,000 websites under management with WhiteHat Sentinel, we begin to answer these questions. These answers may enable the application security community to ask better and deeper questions, which will eventually lead to more secure websites. Organizations deploying these technologies can have a closer look at particularly risk-prone areas. Software vendors may focus on areas that are found to be lacking. Developers can increase their familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of their technology stack. All of this is vitally important because security must be baked into development frameworks and must be virtually transparent. Only then will application security progress be made.
WhiteHat Security’s Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address in order to conduct business online safely.
Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new Web technologies are created and adopted every day; as a result, new attack techniques are frequently disclosed that can put every online business at risk. In order to stay protected, enterprises must receive timely information about how they can most efficiently defend their websites, gain visibility into the performance of their security programs, and learn how they compare with their industry peers. Obtaining these insights is crucial in order to stay ahead and truly improve enterprise website security.
To help, WhiteHat Security has been publishing its Website Security Statistics Report since 2006. This report is the only one that focuses exclusively on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code that is unique to an organization, and found in real-world websites. The underlying data is hundreds of terabytes in size, comprises vulnerability assessment results from tens of thousands of websites across hundreds of the most well-known organizations, and collectively represents the largest and most accurate picture of website security available. Inside this report is information about the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how many get fixed, how long the fixes can take on average, and how every application security program may measurably improve. The report is organized by industry, and is accompanied by WhiteHat Security’s expert analysis and recommendations.
Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the depth of knowledge that organizations require to protect their brands, attain compliance, and avert costly breaches.
WhiteHat Security, the Web security company, today released the twelfth installment of the WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report. The report reviewed serious vulnerabilities* in websites during the 2011 calendar year, examining the severity and duration of the most critical vulnerabilities from 7,000 websites across major vertical markets. Among the findings in the report, WhiteHat research suggests that the average number of serious vulnerabilities found per website per year in 2011 was 79, a substantial reduction from 230 in 2010 and down from 1,111 in 2007. Despite the significant improvement in the state of website security, organizational challenges in creating security programs that balance breadth of coverage and depth of testing leave large-scale attack surfaces or small, but very high-risk vulnerabilities open to attackers.
The report examined data from more than 7,000 websites across over 500 organizations that are continually assessed for vulnerabilities by WhiteHat Security’s family of Sentinel Services. This process provides a real-world look at website security across a range of vertical markets, including findings from the energy and non-profit verticals for the first time this year. The metrics provided serve as a foundation for improving enterprise application security online.
Web security is a moving target and enterprises need timely information about the latest attack trends, how they can best defend their websites, and visibility into their vulnerability lifecycle. Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the knowledge and solutions that organizations need to protect their brands, attain PCI compliance and avert costly breaches.
The WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address to safely conduct business online. WhiteHat has been publishing the report, which highlights the top ten vulnerabilities, tracks vertical market trends and identifies new attack techniques, since 2006.
The WhiteHat Security report presents a statistical picture of current website vulnerabilities, accompanied by WhiteHat expert analysis and recommendations. WhiteHat’s report is the only one in the industry to focus solely on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code unique to an organization,
This year WhiteHat SecurityTM celebrates its fteenth anniversary, and the eleventh year that we have produced the Web Applications Security Statistics Report. The stats shared in this report are based on the aggregation of all the scanning and remediation data obtained from applications that used the WhiteHat SentinelTM service for application security testing in 2015. As an early pioneer in the Application Security Market, WhiteHat has a large and unique collection of data to work with.
In the past two decades of tech booms, busts, and bubbles, two things have not changed - hackers are still nding ways to breach security measures in place, and the endpoint remains the primary target. And now, with cloud and mobile computing, endpoint devices have become the new enterprise security perimeter, so there is even more pressure to lock them down.
Companies are deploying piles of software on the endpoint to secure it - antivirus, anti- malware, desktop rewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability management, web ltering, anti-spam, and the list goes on. Yet with all of the solutions in place, high pro le companies are still being breached. The recent attacks on large retail and hospitality organizations are prime examples, where hackers successfully used credit-card-stealing-malware targeting payment servers to collect customer credit card information.
Ce rapport produit par WhiteHat en mai 2013 offre une vision pertinente des menaces web et des paramètres à prendre en compte pour assurer sécurité et disponibilité.
WhiteHat Security’s Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address in order to conduct business online safely.
Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new Web technologies are created and adopted every day; as a result, new attack techniques are frequently disclosed that can put every online business at risk. In order to stay protected, enterprises must receive timely information about how they can most efficiently defend their websites, gain visibility into the performance of their security programs, and learn how they compare with their industry peers. Obtaining these insights is crucial in order to stay ahead and truly improve enterprise website security.
To help, WhiteHat Security has been publishing its Website Security Statistics Report since 2006. This report is the only one that focuses exclusively on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code that is unique to an organization, and found in real-world websites. The underlying data is hundreds of terabytes in size, comprises vulnerability assessment results from tens of thousands of websites across hundreds of the most well-known organizations, and collectively represents the largest and most accurate picture of website security available. Inside this report is information about the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how many get fixed, how long the fixes can take on average, and how every application security program may measurably improve. The report is organized by industry, and is accompanied by WhiteHat Security’s expert analysis and recommendations.
Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the depth of knowledge that organizations require to protect their brands, attain compliance, and avert costly breaches.
WhiteHat Security, the Web security company, today released the twelfth installment of the WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report. The report reviewed serious vulnerabilities* in websites during the 2011 calendar year, examining the severity and duration of the most critical vulnerabilities from 7,000 websites across major vertical markets. Among the findings in the report, WhiteHat research suggests that the average number of serious vulnerabilities found per website per year in 2011 was 79, a substantial reduction from 230 in 2010 and down from 1,111 in 2007. Despite the significant improvement in the state of website security, organizational challenges in creating security programs that balance breadth of coverage and depth of testing leave large-scale attack surfaces or small, but very high-risk vulnerabilities open to attackers.
The report examined data from more than 7,000 websites across over 500 organizations that are continually assessed for vulnerabilities by WhiteHat Security’s family of Sentinel Services. This process provides a real-world look at website security across a range of vertical markets, including findings from the energy and non-profit verticals for the first time this year. The metrics provided serve as a foundation for improving enterprise application security online.
Web security is a moving target and enterprises need timely information about the latest attack trends, how they can best defend their websites, and visibility into their vulnerability lifecycle. Through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, WhiteHat Sentinel, WhiteHat Security is uniquely positioned to deliver the knowledge and solutions that organizations need to protect their brands, attain PCI compliance and avert costly breaches.
The WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address to safely conduct business online. WhiteHat has been publishing the report, which highlights the top ten vulnerabilities, tracks vertical market trends and identifies new attack techniques, since 2006.
The WhiteHat Security report presents a statistical picture of current website vulnerabilities, accompanied by WhiteHat expert analysis and recommendations. WhiteHat’s report is the only one in the industry to focus solely on unknown vulnerabilities in custom Web applications, code unique to an organization,
This year WhiteHat SecurityTM celebrates its fteenth anniversary, and the eleventh year that we have produced the Web Applications Security Statistics Report. The stats shared in this report are based on the aggregation of all the scanning and remediation data obtained from applications that used the WhiteHat SentinelTM service for application security testing in 2015. As an early pioneer in the Application Security Market, WhiteHat has a large and unique collection of data to work with.
In the past two decades of tech booms, busts, and bubbles, two things have not changed - hackers are still nding ways to breach security measures in place, and the endpoint remains the primary target. And now, with cloud and mobile computing, endpoint devices have become the new enterprise security perimeter, so there is even more pressure to lock them down.
Companies are deploying piles of software on the endpoint to secure it - antivirus, anti- malware, desktop rewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability management, web ltering, anti-spam, and the list goes on. Yet with all of the solutions in place, high pro le companies are still being breached. The recent attacks on large retail and hospitality organizations are prime examples, where hackers successfully used credit-card-stealing-malware targeting payment servers to collect customer credit card information.
Ce rapport produit par WhiteHat en mai 2013 offre une vision pertinente des menaces web et des paramètres à prendre en compte pour assurer sécurité et disponibilité.
With malware attacks growing more sophisticated, swift, and dangerous by the day — and billions of dollars spent to combat them — surprisingly few organizations have a grip on the problem. Only 20 percent of security professionals surveyed by Information Security Media Group (ISMG) rated their incident response program “very effective.” Nearly two-thirds struggle to detect APTs, limiting their ability to defend today’s most pernicious threats. In addition, more than 60 percent struggle with the speed of detection, and more than 40 percent struggle with the accuracy of detection. Those shortcomings give attackers more time to steal data and embed their malware deeper into targeted systems. For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html.
How close is your organization to being breached | Safe SecurityRahul Tyagi
Traditional methods are certainly limited in
their capabilities and this is easily proven by
the multitude of breaches businesses were a
victim of, across the globe. The 2020 Q3 Data
Breach QuickView Report revealed that the
number of records exposed in 2020 has
increased to 36 billion globally. The report
stated that there were 2,953 publicly
reported breaches in the first three quarters
of 2020 itself! 2020 is already named the
“worst year on record” by the end of Q2 in
terms of the total number of records
exposed. With the growing sophistication of
cyber-attacks and global damages related
to cybercrime reaching $6 trillion by 2021, we
need a solution that simplifies
cybersecurity.
To know more about breach probability visit : www.safe.security
Today, the delegation of risk decisions to the IT team
cannot be the only solution and has to be a shared
responsibility. The board and business executives are
expected to incorporate the management of cyber risk
as part of their business strategy since they are
accountable to stakeholders, regulators and
customers. For the CROs, CISOs, and Security and Risk
Management Professionals to be on the same page,
there has to be a single source of truth for
communicating the impact that cyber risk has on
business outcomes, in a language that everyone can
understand.
A detailed analysis on one of the biggest data breaches in history...What JP Morgan Chase & Co did wrong and proposed mitigation techniques. The data breach at J.P. Morgan Chase is yet another example of how our most sensitive personal information is in danger.
.
SANS 2013 Report: Digital Forensics and Incident Response Survey FireEye, Inc.
Cloud computing and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) workplace policies are expanding the endpoints in IT infrastructures — and more complexity when it comes to investigating cyber attacks. The SANS 2013 Report on Digital Forensics and Incident Response Survey reveals some of the major difficulties that security professionals face in this new environment and how to better prepare for future investigations. Collecting responses from more than 450 security professionals across a range of industries and company sizes, the survey found that nearly 90 percent of respondents had conducted at least one forensics investigation within the last two years. But just 54 percent called their digital forensics capabilities “reasonably effective.” For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html
A detailed scenario of risks present in a proposed collaborative platform and the various steps involved with detailed risk assessment for the business environment.
Whitepaper | Cyber resilience in the age of digital transformationNexon Asia Pacific
We are living in an always-on world using different communications devices, systems and networks. As privacy and protecting one’s identity is becoming increasingly important, the task of protecting these devices, systems and networks from cyber attack is no longer an option, it is a necessity.
SANS 2013 Report on Critical Security Controls Survey: Moving From Awareness ...FireEye, Inc.
The law of unintended consequences strikes again. In an effort to address security risks in enterprise IT systems and the critical data in them, numerous security standards and requirement frameworks have emerged over the years. But most of these efforts have had the opposite effect — diverting organizations’ limited resources away from actual cyber defense toward reports and compliance.
Recognizing this serious problem, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in 2008 launched Critical Security Controls (CSCs), a prioritized list of controls likely to have the greatest impact in protecting organizations from evolving real-world threats. This SANS Institute survey of nearly 700 IT professionals across a range of industries examines how well the CSCs are known in government and industry and how they are being used.
For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html.
McAfee Labs explores top threats expected in the coming year.
Welcome to the McAfee Labs 2017 Threats Predictions
report. We have split this year’s report into two sections.
The first section digs into three very important topics,
looking at each through a long lens.
The second section makes specific predictions about
threats activity in 2017. Our predictions for next year
cover a wide range of threats, including ransomware,
vulnerabilities of all kinds, the use of threat intelligence
to improve defenses, and attacks on mobile devices.
Before the Breach: Using threat intelligence to stop attackers in their tracks- Mark - Fullbright
All information, data, and material contained, presented, or provided on is for educational purposes only.
Company names mentioned herein are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
It is not to be construed or intended as providing legal advice.
Company names mentioned herein are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners and are for educational purposes only.
17 U.S. Code § 107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Big Iron to Big Data Analytics for Security, Compliance, and the MainframePrecisely
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technologies and practices continue to expand across IT organizations to address security concerns and meet compliance mandates. However, in many of these organizations the mainframe remains an isolated technology platform. Security & compliance issues are addressed using old tools that are not effectively integrated into big data analytics platforms. In this webinar we discuss how to leverage mainframe (Big Iron) data sources into Big Data analytics platforms to address a variety of mainframe security challenges. Additionally, we cover:
• How to integrate IBM z/OS mainframe security data into an enterprise SIEM solution
• How to leverage IBM z/OS security data to detect threats in the mainframe environment using big data analytics
• Review some compliance uses cases that have been addressed using big iron to big data analytics
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ha pubblicato l’edizione 2016 dello studio HPE Cyber Risk Report, un rapporto che identifica le principali minacce alla sicurezza subite dalle aziende nel corso dell’anno passato. La dissoluzione dei tradizionali perimetri di rete e la maggiore esposizione agli attacchi sottopongono gli specialisti della sicurezza a crescenti sfide per riuscire a proteggere utenti, applicazioni e dati senza tuttavia ostacolare l’innovazione né rallentare le attività aziendali.
La presente edizione del Cyber Risk Report analizza lo scenario delle minacce del 2015, proponendo azioni di intelligence nelle principali aree di rischio, quali la vulnerabilità delle applicazioni, le patch di sicurezza e la crescente monetizzazione del malware. Il report approfondisce inoltre tematiche di settore rilevanti come le nuove normative nell’ambito della ricerca sulla sicurezza, i “danni collaterali” derivanti dal furto di dati importanti, i mutamenti delle agende politiche e il costante dibattito su privacy e sicurezza.
Se le applicazioni web sono una fonte di rischio significativa per le organizzazioni, quelle mobile presentano rischi maggiori e più specifici. Il frequente utilizzo di informazioni personali da parte delle applicazioni mobili genera infatti vulnerabilità nella conservazione e trasmissione di informazioni riservate e sensibili, con circa il 75% delle applicazioni mobili analizzate che presenta almeno una vulnerabilità critica o ad alto rischio rispetto al 35% delle applicazioni non mobili.
Lo sfruttamento delle vulnerabilità software continua a essere un vettore di attacco primario, soprattutto in presenza di vulnerabilità mobili. Basti pensare che, come nel 2014,le prime dieci vulnerabilità sfruttate nel 2015 erano note da oltre un anno e il 68% di esse da tre anni o più. Windows è stata la piattaforma software più colpita nel 2015: il 42% delle prime 20 vulnerabilità scoperte è stato indirizzato a piattaforme e applicazioni Microsoft. Colpisce poi anche un altro dato. Il 29% di tutti gli attacchi condotti con successo nel 2015 ha infatti utilizzato quale vettore di infezione Stuxnet, un codice del 2010 già sottoposto a due patch.
Passando ai malware, i bersagli sono cambiati notevolmente in funzione dell’evoluzione dei trend e di una sempre maggiore focalizzazione sull’opportunità di trarre guadagno. Il numero di minacce, malware e applicazioni potenzialmente indesiderate per Android è cresciuto del 153% da un anno all’altro: ogni giorno vengono scoperte oltre 10.000 nuove minacce. Apple iOS ha registrato le percentuali di crescita maggiori, con un incremento delle tipologie di malware di oltre il 230% anno su anno.
Research Article On Web Application SecuritySaadSaif6
This Is The Totally Hand Written Research Article On
Web Application Security
(Improving Critical Web-based Applications Quality Through In depth Security Analysis)
This Research Article Was Made By Me After The Hard Working Of One Month. Its Best And Suitable For Your Research Paper And Also Used In Class For Present It And For Submission.
Open Source Insight: SCA for DevOps, DHS Security, Securing Open Source for G...Black Duck by Synopsys
It’s an acronym-filled issue of Open Source Insight, as we look at the question of SCA (software composition analysis) and how it fits into the DevOps environment. The DHS (Department of Homeland Security) has concerning security gaps, according to its OIG (Office of Inspector General). Can the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) gap be closed? The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is bearing down on us like a freight train, and it’s past time to include open source security into your GDPR plans.
Plus, an intro to the Open Hub community, looking at security for blockchain apps, and best practices for open source security in container environments are all featured in this week’s cybersecurity and open source security news.
With malware attacks growing more sophisticated, swift, and dangerous by the day — and billions of dollars spent to combat them — surprisingly few organizations have a grip on the problem. Only 20 percent of security professionals surveyed by Information Security Media Group (ISMG) rated their incident response program “very effective.” Nearly two-thirds struggle to detect APTs, limiting their ability to defend today’s most pernicious threats. In addition, more than 60 percent struggle with the speed of detection, and more than 40 percent struggle with the accuracy of detection. Those shortcomings give attackers more time to steal data and embed their malware deeper into targeted systems. For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html.
How close is your organization to being breached | Safe SecurityRahul Tyagi
Traditional methods are certainly limited in
their capabilities and this is easily proven by
the multitude of breaches businesses were a
victim of, across the globe. The 2020 Q3 Data
Breach QuickView Report revealed that the
number of records exposed in 2020 has
increased to 36 billion globally. The report
stated that there were 2,953 publicly
reported breaches in the first three quarters
of 2020 itself! 2020 is already named the
“worst year on record” by the end of Q2 in
terms of the total number of records
exposed. With the growing sophistication of
cyber-attacks and global damages related
to cybercrime reaching $6 trillion by 2021, we
need a solution that simplifies
cybersecurity.
To know more about breach probability visit : www.safe.security
Today, the delegation of risk decisions to the IT team
cannot be the only solution and has to be a shared
responsibility. The board and business executives are
expected to incorporate the management of cyber risk
as part of their business strategy since they are
accountable to stakeholders, regulators and
customers. For the CROs, CISOs, and Security and Risk
Management Professionals to be on the same page,
there has to be a single source of truth for
communicating the impact that cyber risk has on
business outcomes, in a language that everyone can
understand.
A detailed analysis on one of the biggest data breaches in history...What JP Morgan Chase & Co did wrong and proposed mitigation techniques. The data breach at J.P. Morgan Chase is yet another example of how our most sensitive personal information is in danger.
.
SANS 2013 Report: Digital Forensics and Incident Response Survey FireEye, Inc.
Cloud computing and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) workplace policies are expanding the endpoints in IT infrastructures — and more complexity when it comes to investigating cyber attacks. The SANS 2013 Report on Digital Forensics and Incident Response Survey reveals some of the major difficulties that security professionals face in this new environment and how to better prepare for future investigations. Collecting responses from more than 450 security professionals across a range of industries and company sizes, the survey found that nearly 90 percent of respondents had conducted at least one forensics investigation within the last two years. But just 54 percent called their digital forensics capabilities “reasonably effective.” For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html
A detailed scenario of risks present in a proposed collaborative platform and the various steps involved with detailed risk assessment for the business environment.
Whitepaper | Cyber resilience in the age of digital transformationNexon Asia Pacific
We are living in an always-on world using different communications devices, systems and networks. As privacy and protecting one’s identity is becoming increasingly important, the task of protecting these devices, systems and networks from cyber attack is no longer an option, it is a necessity.
SANS 2013 Report on Critical Security Controls Survey: Moving From Awareness ...FireEye, Inc.
The law of unintended consequences strikes again. In an effort to address security risks in enterprise IT systems and the critical data in them, numerous security standards and requirement frameworks have emerged over the years. But most of these efforts have had the opposite effect — diverting organizations’ limited resources away from actual cyber defense toward reports and compliance.
Recognizing this serious problem, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in 2008 launched Critical Security Controls (CSCs), a prioritized list of controls likely to have the greatest impact in protecting organizations from evolving real-world threats. This SANS Institute survey of nearly 700 IT professionals across a range of industries examines how well the CSCs are known in government and industry and how they are being used.
For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html.
McAfee Labs explores top threats expected in the coming year.
Welcome to the McAfee Labs 2017 Threats Predictions
report. We have split this year’s report into two sections.
The first section digs into three very important topics,
looking at each through a long lens.
The second section makes specific predictions about
threats activity in 2017. Our predictions for next year
cover a wide range of threats, including ransomware,
vulnerabilities of all kinds, the use of threat intelligence
to improve defenses, and attacks on mobile devices.
Before the Breach: Using threat intelligence to stop attackers in their tracks- Mark - Fullbright
All information, data, and material contained, presented, or provided on is for educational purposes only.
Company names mentioned herein are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
It is not to be construed or intended as providing legal advice.
Company names mentioned herein are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners and are for educational purposes only.
17 U.S. Code § 107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Big Iron to Big Data Analytics for Security, Compliance, and the MainframePrecisely
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) technologies and practices continue to expand across IT organizations to address security concerns and meet compliance mandates. However, in many of these organizations the mainframe remains an isolated technology platform. Security & compliance issues are addressed using old tools that are not effectively integrated into big data analytics platforms. In this webinar we discuss how to leverage mainframe (Big Iron) data sources into Big Data analytics platforms to address a variety of mainframe security challenges. Additionally, we cover:
• How to integrate IBM z/OS mainframe security data into an enterprise SIEM solution
• How to leverage IBM z/OS security data to detect threats in the mainframe environment using big data analytics
• Review some compliance uses cases that have been addressed using big iron to big data analytics
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) ha pubblicato l’edizione 2016 dello studio HPE Cyber Risk Report, un rapporto che identifica le principali minacce alla sicurezza subite dalle aziende nel corso dell’anno passato. La dissoluzione dei tradizionali perimetri di rete e la maggiore esposizione agli attacchi sottopongono gli specialisti della sicurezza a crescenti sfide per riuscire a proteggere utenti, applicazioni e dati senza tuttavia ostacolare l’innovazione né rallentare le attività aziendali.
La presente edizione del Cyber Risk Report analizza lo scenario delle minacce del 2015, proponendo azioni di intelligence nelle principali aree di rischio, quali la vulnerabilità delle applicazioni, le patch di sicurezza e la crescente monetizzazione del malware. Il report approfondisce inoltre tematiche di settore rilevanti come le nuove normative nell’ambito della ricerca sulla sicurezza, i “danni collaterali” derivanti dal furto di dati importanti, i mutamenti delle agende politiche e il costante dibattito su privacy e sicurezza.
Se le applicazioni web sono una fonte di rischio significativa per le organizzazioni, quelle mobile presentano rischi maggiori e più specifici. Il frequente utilizzo di informazioni personali da parte delle applicazioni mobili genera infatti vulnerabilità nella conservazione e trasmissione di informazioni riservate e sensibili, con circa il 75% delle applicazioni mobili analizzate che presenta almeno una vulnerabilità critica o ad alto rischio rispetto al 35% delle applicazioni non mobili.
Lo sfruttamento delle vulnerabilità software continua a essere un vettore di attacco primario, soprattutto in presenza di vulnerabilità mobili. Basti pensare che, come nel 2014,le prime dieci vulnerabilità sfruttate nel 2015 erano note da oltre un anno e il 68% di esse da tre anni o più. Windows è stata la piattaforma software più colpita nel 2015: il 42% delle prime 20 vulnerabilità scoperte è stato indirizzato a piattaforme e applicazioni Microsoft. Colpisce poi anche un altro dato. Il 29% di tutti gli attacchi condotti con successo nel 2015 ha infatti utilizzato quale vettore di infezione Stuxnet, un codice del 2010 già sottoposto a due patch.
Passando ai malware, i bersagli sono cambiati notevolmente in funzione dell’evoluzione dei trend e di una sempre maggiore focalizzazione sull’opportunità di trarre guadagno. Il numero di minacce, malware e applicazioni potenzialmente indesiderate per Android è cresciuto del 153% da un anno all’altro: ogni giorno vengono scoperte oltre 10.000 nuove minacce. Apple iOS ha registrato le percentuali di crescita maggiori, con un incremento delle tipologie di malware di oltre il 230% anno su anno.
Research Article On Web Application SecuritySaadSaif6
This Is The Totally Hand Written Research Article On
Web Application Security
(Improving Critical Web-based Applications Quality Through In depth Security Analysis)
This Research Article Was Made By Me After The Hard Working Of One Month. Its Best And Suitable For Your Research Paper And Also Used In Class For Present It And For Submission.
Open Source Insight: SCA for DevOps, DHS Security, Securing Open Source for G...Black Duck by Synopsys
It’s an acronym-filled issue of Open Source Insight, as we look at the question of SCA (software composition analysis) and how it fits into the DevOps environment. The DHS (Department of Homeland Security) has concerning security gaps, according to its OIG (Office of Inspector General). Can the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) gap be closed? The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is bearing down on us like a freight train, and it’s past time to include open source security into your GDPR plans.
Plus, an intro to the Open Hub community, looking at security for blockchain apps, and best practices for open source security in container environments are all featured in this week’s cybersecurity and open source security news.
Asset Discovery in India – Redhunt LabsRedhuntLabs2
Leading Asset Discovery Company Redhunt Labs provides a variety of solutions to assist companies in India in securing their online assets and guarding against cyber threats. Our Agent less Platform NVADR has been successful for many of our customers in locating significant data leaks across publicly exposed Docker containers. NVADR has the capability to continually monitor your exposed Docker Assets from across the globe.
We also provide a Free Scan if you'd like to examine the Attack Surface of your company. Here to visit our page for more information.
Protecting Enterprise - An examination of bugs, major vulnerabilities and exp...ESET Middle East
This white paper focuses on the dramatic growth in the number and severity of software vulnerabilities, and discusses how multilayered endpoint security is needed to mitigate the threats they pose.
Web app penetration testing best methods tools usedZoe Gilbert
Read this blog to know the best methodologies of web app penetration testing and tools to gain real-world insights by keeping untrusted data separate from commands and queries, with improved access control.
White Paper: 7 Security Gaps in the Neglected 90% of your ApplicationsSonatype
The combination of growing component usage, coupled with lack of security, requires us to urgently re-evaluate traditional application security approaches and identify practical next steps for closing these security gaps.
Open Source Insight: Struts in VMware, Law Firm Cybersecurity, Hospital Data ...Black Duck by Synopsys
The need for cybersecurity vigilance is the overarching theme of this week’s news, as Google OSS-Fuzz finds more than 1,000 bugs, with 264 of them flagged as potential security bugs. The vuln that just keeps on strutting has impacted VMware products. Thousands of patient records are leaked in a New York Hospital data breach. More hospital data breaches may be imminent in the NHS Ransomware attacks announced today.
Security engineering 101 when good design & security work togetherWendy Knox Everette
Security concerns are often dealt with as an afterthought—the focus is on building a product, and then security features or compensating controls are thrown in after the product is nearly ready to launch. Why do so many development teams take this approach? For one, they may not have an application security team to advise them. Or the security team may be seen as a roadblock, insisting on things that make the product less user friendly, or in tension with performance goals or other business demands. But security doesn’t need to be a bolt-on in your software process; good design principles should go hand in hand with a strong security stance. What does your engineering team need to know to begin designing safer, more robust software from the get-go?
Drawing on experience working in application security with companies of various sizes and maturity levels, Wendy Knox Everette focuses on several core principles and provides some resources for you to do more of a deep dive into various topics. Wendy begins by walking you through the design phase, covering the concerns you should pay attention to when you’re beginning work on a new feature or system: encapsulation, access control, building for observability, and preventing LangSec-style parsing issues. This is also the best place to perform an initial threat model, which sounds like a big scary undertaking but is really just looking at the moving pieces of this application and thinking about who might use them in unexpected ways, and why.
She then turns to security during the development phase. At this point, the focus is on enforcing secure defaults, using standard encryption libraries, protecting from malicious injection, insecure deserialization, and other common security issues. You’ll learn what secure configurations to enable, what monitoring and alerting to put in place, how to test your code, and how to update your application, especially any third-party dependencies.
Now that the software is being used by customers, are you done? Not really. It’s important to incorporate information about how customers interact as well as any security incidents back into your design considerations for the next version. This is the time to dust off the initial threat model and update it, incorporating everything you learned along the way.
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Please answer the following questions in essay fashion giving as much information as you can:
1. Please explain the difference between Bilingual Education and ESL.
2. List as many reasons as you can for why a student (or parents) might choose placement in a bilingual education classroom.
3. Why do we need a 10% population of speakers of the same minority language before implementing a bilingual education program?
4. Lao vs. Nichols is considered to be the primary law suit in Bilingual Education. Why did the Lao family sue the San Francisco public schools? What was the decision of the Supreme Court?
5. Out of the law suit, Castañada v. Piccard came the Castañada Test. What are the components of the Castañeda Test? Why is each one important?
6. Is it legally permissible for school age children who are not in the US legally to attend public schools? What is the name of the law suit that covers this situation?
7. What famous law suit was filed in New Mexico? What were the two results?
8. Salha arrived in the United States from Syria in the 7th grade. She speaks her native language very well, has been educated through the 6th grade, reads, writes and understands grammar in Arabic very well. She was an A/B student in her native country.
Ricardo has immigrated to the United States with his family from a rancho in rural Honduras. Neither of his parents has an education beyond the 3rd grade, though they are very intelligent people. Ricardo is 6 years old and has never been to school. He has no knowledge of reading or writing, but he can tell great stories in Spanish about his ancestry which have been passed down from generation to generation.
Of the above students, which one should be placed in an ESL program? Give as many reasons as you can as to why.
Which one should be placed in a bilingual education program? Give as many reasons as you can as to why.
8. What is subtractive bilingualism? How might it affect a student?
9. We discussed a variety of language teaching methods for ESL education. They included:
The Grammar Translation Method
The Audiolingual Method
The Direct Method
The Silent Way Method
Suggestopedia
Community Language Learning
TPR
Sheltered Language Instruction
Choose the method you believe would best support the Prism Model. Explain why.
Choose a method you feel would not support the Prism Model. Explain why not.
10. Why is Ron Unz wrong in his “English for the Children” arguments when he says, “Young children should be able to learn English in one year”?
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Webinar | Cybersecurity vulnerabilities of your business - Berezha Security G...Berezha Security Group
After the completeness of over 50 Penetration Testing and Application Security projects during the 2020 year and many more since 2014, the BSG team shares its expertise in finding security vulnerabilities across many business verticals and industries.
On the webinar, we will talk about:
1. Typical threat model of a modern business organization.
2. How the COVID-19 pandemic has changed that threat model?
3. What is Threat Modeling, and how it works for the BSG clients?
4. What is DARTS and how we secure sensitive customer data?
5. What is the BSG Web Application Pentester Training and why?
6. Top 10 critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities we found in 2020.
We help our customers address their future security challenges: prevent data breaches and achieve compliance.
*Slides - English language
*Webinar - Ukrainian language
The link on the webinar: https://youtu.be/fkdafStSgZE
BSG 2020 Business Outcomes and Security Vulnerabilities Report: https://bit.ly/bsg2020report
Contact details:
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The Web AppSec How-To: The Defender's ToolboxCheckmarx
Web application security has made headline news in the past few years. In this article, we review the various Web application security tools and highlight important decision factors to help you choose the application security technology best suited for your environment.
There is a serious misalignment of interests between Application Security vulnerability assessment vendors and their customers. Vendors are incentivized to report everything they possible can, even issues that rarely matter. On the other hand, customers just want the vulnerability reports that are likely to get them hacked. Every finding beyond that is a waste of time, money, and energy, which is precisely what’s happening every day.
How to Determine Your Attack Surface in the Healthcare SectorJeremiah Grossman
Do you know what an asset inventory is, why it's important, and how it can protect you from cybersecurity vulnerabilities?
In this webinar, you can expect to learn:
- How to prepare yourself and your staff against cybersecurity threats
- What an asset inventory is and why it's the next big thing in information security
- How to identify all your company's Internet-connected assets and which need to be defended
- Why keeping an up-to-date asset inventory is important
- How to obtain your own attack surface map
Exploring the Psychological Mechanisms used in Ransomware Splash ScreensJeremiah Grossman
The present study examined a selection of 76 ransomware splash screens collected from a variety of sources. These splash screens were analysed according to surface information, including aspects of visual appearance, the use of language, cultural icons, payment and payment types. The results from the current study showed that, whilst there was a wide variation in the construction of ransomware splash screens, there was a good degree of commonality, particularly in terms of the structure and use of key aspects of social engineering used to elicit payment from the victims. There was the emergence of a sub-set of ransomware that, in the context of this report, was termed ‘Cuckoo’ ransomware. This type of attack often purported to be from an official source requesting payment for alleged transgressions.
What the Kidnapping & Ransom Economy Teaches Us About RansomwareJeremiah Grossman
Ransomware is center stage, as campaigns are practically guaranteed financial gain. Cyber-criminals profit hundreds of millions of dollars by selling our data back to us. If you look closely, the ransomware economic dynamics closely follow the real-world kidnapping and ransom industry. We’ll explore the eerie similarities, where ransomware is headed, and strategies we can bring to the fight.
What the Kidnapping & Ransom Economy Teaches Us About RansomwareJeremiah Grossman
Ransomware is center stage, as campaigns are practically guaranteed financial gain. Cyber-criminals profit hundreds of millions of dollars by selling our data back to us. If you look closely, the ransomware economic dynamics closely follow the real-world kidnapping and ransom industry. We’ll explore the eerie similarities, where ransomware is headed, and strategies we can bring to the fight.
Ransomware is Here: Fundamentals Everyone Needs to KnowJeremiah Grossman
If you’re an IT professional, you probably know at least the basics of ransomware. Instead of using malware or an exploit to exfiltrate PII from an enterprise, bad actors instead find valuable data and encrypt it. Unless you happen to have an NSA-caliber data center at your disposal to break the encryption, you must pay your attacker in cold, hard bitcoins—or else wave goodbye to your PII. Those assumptions aren’t wrong, but they also don’t tell the whole picture.
During this event we’ll discuss topics such as:
Why Ransomware is Exploding
The growth of ransomware, as opposed to garden-variety malware, is enormous. Hackers have found that they can directly monetize the data they encrypt, which eliminates the time-consuming process of selling stolen data on the Darknet. In addition, the use of ransomware requires little in the way of technical skill—because attackers don’t need to get root on a victim’s machine.
Who the Real Targets Are
Two years ago, the most newsworthy victims of ransomware were various police departments. This year, everyone is buzzing about hospitals. Is this a deliberate pattern? Probably not. Enterprises are so ill-prepared for ransomware that attackers have a green field to wreak havoc. Until the industry shapes up, bad actors will target ransomware indiscriminately.
Where Ransomware Stumbles
Although ransomware is nearly impossible to dislodge when employed correctly, you may be surprised to find that not all bad actors have the skill to do it. Even if ransomware targets your network, you may learn that your attackers have used extremely weak encryption—or that they’ve encrypted files that are entirely non-critical.
As far as ransomware is concerned, forewarned is forearmed. Once you know how attackers deliver ransomware, who they’re likely to attack, and the weaknesses in the ransomware deployment model, you’ll be able to understand how to protect your enterprise.
Where Flow Charts Don’t Go -- Website Security Statistics Report (2015)Jeremiah Grossman
WhiteHat Security’s Website Security Statistics Report provides a one-of-a-kind perspective on the state of website security and the issues that organizations must address in order to conduct business online safely.
Website security is an ever-moving target. New website launches are common, new code is released constantly, new web technologies are created and adopted every day; as a result, new attack techniques are frequently disclosed that can put every online business at risk. In order to stay protected, enterprises must receive timely information about how they
can most efficiently defend their websites, gain visibility into
the performance of their security programs, and learn how they compare with their industry peers. Obtaining these insights
is crucial in order to stay ahead and truly improve enterprise website security.
To help, WhiteHat Security has been publishing its Website Security Statistics Report since 2006. This report is the only one that focuses exclusively on unknown vulnerabilities in custom web applications, code that is unique to an organization, and found in real-world websites. The underlying data is hundreds of terabytes in size, comprises vulnerability assessment results from tens of thousands of websites across hundreds of the most well- known organizations, and collectively represents the largest and most accurate picture of website security available. Inside this report is information about the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how many get fixed, how long the fixes can take on average, and how every application security program may measurably improve. The report is organized by industry, and is accompanied by WhiteHat Security’s expert analysis and recommendations.
No More Snake Oil: Why InfoSec Needs Security GuaranteesJeremiah Grossman
Ever notice how everything in InfoSec is sold “as is”? No guarantees, no warrantees, no return policies. For some reason in InfoSec, providing customers with a form of financial coverage for their investment is seen as gimmicky, but the tides and times are changing. This talk discusses use cases on why guarantees are a must have and how guarantees benefit customers as well as InfoSec as a whole.
In this report, we put this area of application security understanding to the test by measuring how various web programming languages and development frameworks actually perform in the field. To which classes of attack are they most prone, how often and for how long; and, how do they fare against popular alternatives? Is it really true that the most popular modern languages and frameworks yield similar results in production websites?
By analyzing the vulnerability assessment results of more than 30,000 websites under management with WhiteHat Sentinel, we begin to answer these questions. These answers may enable the application security community to ask better and deeper questions, which will eventually lead to more secure websites. Organizations deploying these technologies can have a closer look at particularly risk-prone areas. Software vendors may focus on areas that are found to be lacking. Developers can increase their familiarity with the strengths and weaknesses of their technology stack. All of this is vitally important because security must be baked into development frameworks and must be virtually transparent. Only then will application security progress be made.
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Online advertising networks can be a web hacker’s best friend. For mere pennies per thousand impressions (that means browsers) there are service providers who allow you to broadly distribute arbitrary javascript -- even malicious javascript! You are SUPPOSED to use this “feature” to show ads, to track users, and get clicks, but that doesn’t mean you have to abide. Absolutely nothing prevents spending $10, $100, or more to create a massive javascript-driven browser botnet instantly. The real-world power is spooky cool. We know, because we tested it… in-the-wild.
With a few lines of HTML5 and javascript code we’ll demonstrate just how you can easily commandeer browsers to perform DDoS attacks, participate in email spam campaigns, crack hashes and even help brute-force passwords. Put simply, instruct browsers to make HTTP requests they didn’t intend, even something as well-known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. With CSRF, no zero-days or malware is required. Oh, and there is no patch. The Web is supposed to work this way. Also nice, when the user leaves the page, our code vanishes. No traces. No tracks.
Before leveraging advertising networks, the reason this attack scenario didn’t worry many people is because it has always been difficult to scale up, which is to say, simultaneously control enough browsers (aka botnets) to reach critical mass. Previously, web hackers tried poisoning search engine results, phishing users via email, link spamming Facebook, Twitter and instant messages, Cross-Site Scripting attacks, publishing rigged open proxies, and malicious browser plugins. While all useful methods in certain scenarios, they lack simplicity, invisibility, and most importantly -- scale. That’s what we want! At a moment’s notice, we will show how it is possible to run javascript on an impressively large number of browsers all at once and no one will be the wiser. Today this is possible, and practical.
http://blog.whitehatsec.com/top-ten-web-hacking-techniques-of-2012/
Recorded Webinar: https://www.whitehatsec.com/webinar/whitehat_webinar_march2713.html
Every year the security community produces a stunning amount of new Web hacking techniques that are published in various white papers, blog posts, magazine articles, mailing list emails, conference presentations, etc. Within the thousands of pages are the latest ways to attack websites, Web browsers, Web proxies, and their mobile platform equivilents. Beyond individual vulnerabilities with CVE numbers or system compromises, here we are solely focused on new and creative methods of Web-based attack. Now it its seventh year, The Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques list encourages information sharing, provides a centralized knowledge-base, and recognizes researchers who contribute excellent work. Past Top Tens and the number of new attack techniques discovered in each year:
Web Breaches in 2011-“This is Becoming Hourly News and Totally Ridiculous"Jeremiah Grossman
In 2011, attitude towards hacks shifted from "It happens," to "It is happening.” A poorly coded website and web application is all that’s needed to wreak havoc – expensive firewall, pervasive anti-virus and multi-factor authentication be damned. But what is possible? What types of attacks and attackers should we be mindful of? This presentation will show the real risks in a post-2011 Internet.
video demos: http://whitehatsec.com/home/assets/videos/Top10WebHacks_Webinar031711.zip
Many notable and new Web hacking techniques were revealed in 2010. During this presentation, Jeremiah Grossman will describe the technical details of the top hacks from 2010, as well as some of the prevalent security issues emerging in 2011. Attendees will be treated to a step-by-step guided tour of the newest threats targeting today's corporate websites and enterprise users.
The top attacks in 2010 include:
• 'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack
• Evercookie
• Hacking Auto-Complete
• Attacking HTTPS with Cache Injection
• Bypassing CSRF protections with ClickJacking and HTTP Parameter Pollution
• Universal XSS in IE8
• HTTP POST DoS
• JavaSnoop
• CSS History Hack In Firefox Without JavaScript for Intranet Portscanning
• Java Applet DNS Rebinding
Mr. Grossman will then briefly identify real-world examples of each of these vulnerabilities in action, outlining how the issue occurs, and what preventative measures can be taken. With that knowledge, he will strategize what defensive solutions will have the most impact.
Website attacks continue to prevail despite the best efforts of enterprises to fight them. Websites are an ongoing business concern and security must be assured all the time, not just at a point in time. And yet, most websites were exposed to at least one serious vulnerability every day of 2010, leaving valuable corporate and customer date at risk. Why?
In this report, Jeremiah will explore a new way to measure website security, Windows of Exposure, that tracks an organization’s current and historical website security posture. Window of Exposure is a useful combination of vulnerability prevalence, how long vulnerabilities take to get fixed, and the percentage of them that are remediated. By carefully tracking these metrics, an organization can determine where resources would be best invested.
Using data from WhiteHat’s 11th Website Security Statistics Report, based on assessments of over 3,000 websites, Grossman will reveal the most secure (and insecure) vertical markets and the Windows of Exposure of each. Find out how your industry ranks, and the top ten vulnerabilities plaguing your peers. Learn how to determine which metrics are critical to increasing their remediation rates, thereby limiting their Window of Exposure. The good news is that companies that take this approach are increasing remediation rates by 5 percent per year.
Identifying Web Servers: A First-look Into the Future of Web Server Fingerpri...Jeremiah Grossman
Identifying Web Servers: A First-look Into the Future of Web Server Fingerprinting
Jeremiah Grossman, Founder & Chairman of WhiteHat Security, Inc.
Many diligent security professionals take active steps to limit the amount of system specific information a publicly available system may yield to a remote user. These preventative measures may take the form of modifying service banners, firewalls, web site information, etc.
Software utilities such as NMap have given the security community an excellent resource to discover what type of Operating System and version is listening on a particular IP. This process is achieved by mapping subtle, yet, distinguishable nuances unique to each OS. But, this is normally where the fun ends, as NMap does not enable we user's to determine what version of services are listening. This is up to us to guess or to find out through other various exploits.
This is where we start our talk, fingerprinting Web Servers. These incredibly diverse and useful widespread services notoriously found listening on port 80 and 443 just waiting to be explored. Many web servers by default will readily give up the type and version of the web server via the "Server" HTTP response header. However, many administrators aware of this fact have become increasingly clever in recent months by removing or altering any and all traces of this telltale information.
These countermeasures lead us to the obvious question; could it STILL possible to determine a web servers platform and version even after all known methods of information leakage prevention have been exhausted (either by hack or configuration)?
The simple answer is "yes"; it is VERY possible to still identify the web server. But, the even more interesting question is; just how much specific information can we obtain remotely?
Are we able to determine?
* Supported HTTP Request Methods.
* Current Service Pack.
* Patch Levels.
* Configuarations.
* If an Apache Server suffers from a "chunked" vulnerability.
Is really possible to determine this specific information using a few simple HTTP requests? Again, the simple answer is yes, the possibility exists.
Proof of concept tools and command line examples will be demonstrated throughout the talk to illustrate these new ideas and techniques. Various countermeasures will also be explored to protect your IIS or Apache web server from various fingerprinting techniques.
Prerequisites:
General understanding of Web Server technology and HTTP.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
2. 2014 Website Security Statistics Report2
An end to the war of languages… maybe.
Whenever beginning a new software project, you have to make a choice: what programming
languages or development frameworks to use? While it would be nice to select the most
secure software stack at the start of a project, more often this decision is made for different
reasons and security is commonly an afterthought.
The software stack decision is commonly based upon parameters such as:
§§ What the development teams are most familiar with.
§§ The current market momentum around the latest and greatest technology.
§§ What will generate code the fastest and can be maintained at a low cost.
§§ The available talent pool as the project grows.
§§ And of course, whatever gets the job done.
Familiarity with a programming language or development framework can drastically
impact the ‘security’ outcome – whether it is designed to be secure by default or must be
configured properly, and whether various libraries are available. Still, conventional wisdom
suggests that most popular modern languages and frameworks (commercial and open
source) perform similarly when it comes to an overall security posture. At least in theory,
none is noticeably more secure than another. That being said, suggesting that PHP, Java,
C# and others are any more secure than other languages is sure to spark heated debate.
This is curious since the security of various programming languages rarely comes up when
choosing what to use for a project.
In the security industry, you often hear that any programming language can be coded
securely – or conversely, insecurely – therefore, it really comes down to the development
process. We know information security, and in particular application security, is littered
with conventional wisdom and lacks foundational data. So we must ask, is this really true?
Do programming languages perform relatively the same security-wise in the real-world,
the only place where it matters? Or is their thought-to-be-similar-performance only true
when restricted to technical documentation and anecdotes of their advocates? This area
warrants deeper investigation.
In this report, we put this area of application security understanding to the test by measuring
how various web programming languages and development frameworks actually perform
in the field. To which classes of attack are they most prone, how often and for how long;
and, how do they fare against popular alternatives? Is it really true that the most popular
modern languages and frameworks yield similar results in production websites?
By analyzing the vulnerability assessment results of more than 30,000 websites under
management with WhiteHat Sentinel, we begin to answer these questions. These answers
may enable the application security community to ask better and deeper questions, which
will eventually lead to more secure websites. Organizations deploying these technologies
can have a closer look at particularly risk-prone areas. Software vendors may focus on
areas that are found to be lacking. Developers can increase their familiarity with the
strengths and weaknesses of their technology stack. All of this is vitally important because
security must be baked into development frameworks and must be virtually transparent.
Only then will application security progress be made.
Introduction
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Déjà vu
Literally translated in English as “already seen,” déjà vu would best describe the current state
of website security. The Verizon Data Breach Incidents Report, the FireHost “Superfecta”
Attack Report, and many other industry reports are in firm alignment that websites and web
applications remain one of the leading targets of cyber-attacks. Further, the conclusions
drawn from these varying industry reports all point to the need for more secure software.
As a society, our reliance on the web continues to grow and the financial implications of
these attacks are multiplying. Those who have sought to transfer some of these risks to
more traditional instruments such as the burgeoning cyber insurance market have filed
claims reaching as high as $20 million, with an average payout of just above $900,000*.
Unfortunately, these policies are expensive and complicated, and do not always cover
damages incurred from attacks.
Tide goes in, tide goes out…
The Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) is well-defined and can be readily explained.
If asked, IT teams are likely to point to a number of reasons for their choice of software
stack which was likely made during the requirements or planning phase of development.
The missing piece to achieving more secure software is the absence of relevant security
data assisting in the technology selection process.
The requirements phase revisited
Application security professionals understand that websites with multiple users must have
a way to securely handle each user, to ensure their sessions are initiated, managed, and
terminated in a secure manner, and also to determine that if these sessions are authenticated,
they must begin as an encrypted authentication event to avoid session fixation. What
application security professionals are not currently able to add to the decision-making
process is the determination, for example, of which programming language most securely
handles sessions. If the choice of language is not one that handles sessions as securely
as others, other determinations of how the chosen language is affected by the ability to
correct session fixation issues, comes into play. Is it difficult to address? How long is the
average time to fix those issues?
The above is just one example of how our choices could be positively affected by
understanding the security of the software stacks we choose. The same is reflected across
the many security-focused scenarios that should be made at the requirements gathering
and design phases. Another example of such a scenario:
What happens if user X posts a question on the system? What happens if user Y then
reads this question? We know there is a risk of Cross Site Scripting (XSS) but what we
do not know is how well-equipped the chosen technology will be to protect against XSS.
Is it difficult to address XSS?
As security professionals, we need to meet the business requirements while controlling
cost, and ensuring the security and integrity of our systems and data. It would be nice to
get to a place where application security professionals can say “we can keep development
costs down and be secure by choosing language X, given our requirements and the relative
ease-to-fix issues that are known to affect our design.” This report aims to examine the
prevalence of threats per programming language and the ensuing analysis reveals the
relative security of those languages.
Executive summary
*Source: http://www.netdiligence.com/files/CyberClaimsStudy-2013.pdf
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Data Set
The data
All URLs for active slots with a PE* service level were selected. Clients that are used in
QA/Demo and other “non-real” clients were removed from the sample.
An unknown number of scan responses were missing and therefore, no language data
was collected on these URLs. These only affected URLs that did not have a vulnerability
detected.
Problems with the data
Scan responses that are more than 90-days old and not associated with a vulnerability
are deleted from the server. This policy resulted in an unknown number of slots missing
scan responses. While there is a lack of empirical evidence, it was determined that this
was occurring on large slots and we probably had a sufficient number of URLs with
vulnerabilities to accurately determine the language profile on the slot.
Slots were partially validated by comparing the slot information from the Salesforce
database as it is the canonical authority on the client list. However, this data is dirty in that
it is missing about 118 slot IDs that were used in the analysis.
We were using the most recent completed instance or, the most recent failed instance
or, the active instance. There is a notable number of instances that have missing scan
responses.
It is worth noting that we were able to detect SSI, Ruby, HTC, and GO, however, the
sampling of these languages were statistically to small to include. We also detected Flash
applications, but as Flash is not a server-side language it was generally excluded unless
specifically stated.
The distribution of URLs per slot has a strong positive skew (8.1371). That is, the majority
of slots had a small number of URLs and a few had a large number. This may be the result
of differences in the size of the sites, the number of interactive elements and the language
that was used. Therefore the average values reported will be based on the median and
not the mean.
There were a large number of slots (811) that had fewer than 10 URLs. Of the 122,800
URLs used, there were 2,652 URLs associated with those slots that had fewer than
10 URLs.
The language classification system was able to find 179,146 markers for language.
*WhiteHat Security’s PE level service combines automated scanning by the Sentinel platform and combines
manual custom testing to identity business logic flaws by the WhiteHat Threat Research Center.
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Methodology
Terminology
Modern websites are composed of multiple technologies. WhiteHat Security defines the
boundaries of a web application as a “slot.” The research data was derived from slots that
had at least three completed assessments.
Language classification
Language classification was based on file extensions and HTTP header information.
The URL file extension and the HTTP response body headers were used for language
classification. A list of file extensions was mapped to selected languages. Many languages
had several file extensions associated with them. The headers were examined and
classification criteria were used to determine which language was used. Some languages
and frameworks emit characteristic headers that were mapped to a given language. The
same is true for cookies. Headers such as “content-disposition” had the filename section
parsed and the file extension was used for classification. The “x-powered-by” header often
listed the language used. The “content-type” header often listed the type of data, such
as json or flash. In addition, there were many header names, such as “x-aspnet-version”
that were used to indicate which language was used. The headers were collected and
classified. Any unclassified headers went into a pool to be reexamined when sufficient
numbers of the headers could be classified. 56.3% of URLs were able to be classified.
We were able to determine at least one language on every slot. 31.7% of the slots had
multiple languages.
Methodology
Scripts were written to extract supplemental data about the slots, such as industry, class,
vulnerability status (open or closed), and timestamps. These data points are stored in our
database and were extracted into a form that was imported into our statistical software.
This extraction was done using SQL commands or Perl calls to our custom data framework.
No cleaning of the data occurred at this phase, simply extraction.
We used the R programming language to validate, clean, and link data. This is well-
documented and results are reproducible. Raw data from the extraction, transformation,
and loading phases were loaded into R. All cleaning and validation was done in R so that
the results could be reproduced. This used a series of custom written routines on top of
the R libraries. The statistical analysis was also scripted so that it could be repeated. A
markdown language was used to generate a report with the results from the analysis and
comments about their meaning.
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The most widely
used languages are
.NET and Java. Many
organizations use ASP,
a legacy language.
0
10
20
30
40
50
PerlColdFusionPHPASPJAVA.NET
28%
25%
16%
11%
6%
3%
Percent of URLs by language
Key findings
In analyzing the data, our goal was to learn about the consequences of different technology
decisions and to empower security decision makers that aim for a modern approach to
addressing the real business challenges they face.
Fundamental data points
§§ We observed .Net to be the most widely represented language choice with 28.1% of
web applications using the framework, followed by Java at 24.9% and ASP at 15.9%.
§§ There was no significant difference between languages in examining the highest
averages of vulnerabilities per slot. .Net had an average of 11.36 vulnerabilities per
slot. Java was found to have an average of 11.32 and ASP came in at 10.98.
§§ The bottom of the spectrum, or the most “secure”, also showed no significant
difference between languages with the lowest averages of vulnerabilities per slot. Perl
was observed as having 7 vulnerabilities per slot. ColdFusion was found to have the
fewest with an average of 6.
Risk exposure does not vary widely between languages, as language choice does not
affect the number of vulnerabilities. A one-way analysis of the variance showed that there
was no statistically significant difference between these languages. In fact, there was no
statistical difference, in terms of the average number of vulnerabilities per slot, between
any of the languages in this study.
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Vulnerability classes
§§ 10.59% of ColdFuision sites had at least one SQL Injection vulnerability, the highest
observed, followed by ASP with 7.67% and .NET 5.78%.
§§ Perl sites had a 67% chance of having at least one Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
vulnerability, over 11% more than any other language.
§§ There was less than a 2% difference among the languages with Cross Site Request
Forgery (CSRF).
§§ Many vulnerability classes were not affected by language choice.
Language observations
§§ ColdFusion has the best overall remediation rates at 74.3%.
§§ ColdFusion is significantly affected by Abuse of Functionality vulnerabilities with 5.93%
of all sites having at least one occurrence, five times that of other languages.
§§ PHP had the lowest observed remediation rates.
§§ PHP is significantly affected by Insufficient Transport Layer Protection vulnerabilities, at
4.13% versus an average of 1% of all the combined major languages (Perl, Java, ASP,
.Net ColdFusion).
§§ Perl has the greatest remediation time of XSS, at 265 days to resolve.
§§ Perl’s median remediation rate of CSRF is 23.8 days, three times faster than the next
closest langague, PHP at 68.97 days. All other languages were over 100 days.
§§ ColdFusion and PHP have fast remediation times when vulnerabilities are addressed:
50.5 and 47.5 days respectively.
§§ ASP takes the longest to fix all vulnerabilities averaging 139.97 days. .Net averages
111.86 days and PHP rounded out the bottom with an average of 47.49 days.
§§ ASP is remediating vulnerabilities at the same rate as other languages, but efforts are
focused on critical issues.*
Industry observations
§§ Financial Services, HealthCare and Insurance organizations had the highest number
of ASP sites by a 3:1 ratio.
§§ 86% of Gaming industry sites are written in PHP.
§§ 36% of Banking industry sites were written in Java and 55% in .Net.
§§ 43% of Manufacturing sites leveraged Perl as their language of choice.
§§ 35% of the Technology sector wrote their sites in PHP.
Risk exposure does
not vary widely
between languages, as
language choice does
not affect number of
vulnerabilities.
PerlColdfusionPHPASPJava.NET
11 11 11 10 7 6
Mean number of vulnerabilities in each language
*Observation based on the types of vulnerability classes being remediated.
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The big picture
In a moment, we will return to exploring the security of software stacks. But first, knowing
that there was no significant difference between languages with the highest averages of
vulnerabilities per slot we took a step back to look at how each website performed as
they are most often comprised of multiple technologies. The importance of knowing the
security posture of your websites is, from a security perspective, more important than
language choice.
Vulnerabilities per language
Now that we have examined the average number of vulnerabilities observed in websites
we will drill down and explore the vulnerabilities found in each language and the possible
significance of these findings.
We found that 31% of all vulnerabilities found were in .Net applications. It must be noted
that there are more websites written in .Net than all of the other languages in the study and
that there was no evidence to suggest that .Net is any less secure based on this data point.
In fact, .Net sites have a tendency to be larger and more complicated, which is directly
correlated with having a larger attack surface and consequently more vulnerabilities.
Java – by virtue of its popularity with its extensive standard library class and its familiarity
among programmers – accounted for 28% of all the vulnerabilities found. Again, the
number of applications written in the language along with the complexities of the websites
has to be considered as a contributing factor.
Originally released almost two decades ago ASP totaled 15% of all the discovered
vulnerabilities. Although lacking the complexities of modern frameworks, many of the same
critical vulnerability classifications were found to be present, as we will explore.
Another popular server-side scripting language, PHP also accounted for 15% of
vulnerabilities discovered. A language still popular with Retail, Technology, and Financial
Services organizations, PHP sites do not have a tendency to be as large or complex as
.NET or Java sites but still suffer from many of the same issues.
The percentage of vulnerabilities found among the remaining languages experiences a
sharp drop off from this point. ColdFusion, another platform almost 20 years in existence,
only accounted for 4% of the vulnerabilities, while Perl registered at 2%.
Average vulnerabilities
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Median days open
By language
The next data set we examined was the average number of days vulnerabilities remained
open. Vulnerabilities go unfixed for many reasons and it begged the question as to whether
there was anything to be learned from studying the length of time vulnerabilities were open
in each of the languages.
ASP vulnerabilities were open for an median of 139 days, more so than any of the other
languages.
PHP rounds out the top of the list with an average days open of 129.5 days. The numbers
begin to significantly decline beyond Java, which had an average of 90.9 days open. The
other languages were all under 45 days once we hit this drop off.
By class
Cross-Site Scripting in the PHP environment was open the least median number of days
at 49. Perl and ASP respectively had XSS issues open an average of 184 and 135 days.
.Net did not fare much better with XSS having an average number of days open of 126.
Overall XSS appears to take a relative amount of effort regardless of the language class.
PHP stood out from the pack when looking at SQL Injection, with the languages instances
of the vulnerability exhibiting the lowest average number of days at 6.8, closely followed
by Perl, which had the issue open an average of 19.4 days. ColdFusion topped the list
averaging 107.4 days of exposed SQL Injection vulnerabilities. ASP’s average number of
days open for SQL Injection was not far off of the ColdFusion average at 97.5 days. .Net
and Java fell roughly in the middle at 51.4 and 64.8 days respectively.
The vulnerability with the highest average number of days open was Weak Password
Recovery Validation in ASP websites, while not the most damaging vulnerability by itself,
this could speak to a number of things such as, complexities of the language itself,
programming experience necessary, or simply that this vulnerability class is not a priority
in that environment.
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Days open of top 5 vulnerability classes
200
400
600
800
PHP
Perl
Java
.NET
ColdFusion
ASP
Top five vulnerabilities:
Cross Site Scripting
Information Leakage
Content Spoofing
HTTP Response Splitting
Predictable Resource
Location
The following vulnerabilities
are unremarkable on graph:
Predictable Resource Location
SQL Injection
Cross Site Request Forgery
Insufficient Transport Layer
Protection
Abuse of Functionality
Brute Force
URL Redirector Abuse
Insufficient Authorization
Fingerprinting
Session Fixation
Directory Indexing
Key findings:
§§ ASP vulnerabilities remain open the longest at 139 days.
§§ Cross-Site Scripting takes the longest to close in Perl
taking 184 median days.
§§ ColdFusion has the largest average days open for SQL
Injection vulnerabilities at 107 median days.
§§ Languages with the most security controls are taking the
longest to remediate.
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Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
XSS regained the number one spot for being the most common vulnerability, after being
overtaken by Information Leakage last year in all but one language: .Net, which still has
Information Leakage as the number one vulnerability, followed by XSS.
Stand-outs
ColdFusion has a significantly higher percentage of abuse of functionality vulnerabilities
at 6% compared to Java, the language with the second highest percentage at 1%.
ColdFusion does, however, boast a 100% remediation rate versus Java’s 78% remediation
rate or abuse of functionality vulnerabilities.
ColdFusion also suffers from the greatest percentage of SQL Injection at 11%. ASP takes
second place with 8%. Java had the lowest percentage of SQL Injection at 1%. Again we
see ColdFusion with a higher remediation rate of 96% versus Java’s 89%.
PHP’s rate of Insufficient Transport Layer at 4.13% is the highest, exceeding Java by
almost 4-times which came in second at 1.34%. Coupled with a low remediation rate of
52%, PHP applications are at a much higher risk of exposing sensitive information.
Vulnerability classes
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Key findings:
§§ Cross-Site Scripting regains the number one spot after being overtaken by Information
Leakage last year in all but one language. .Net has Information Leakage as the number
one vulnerability, followed by Cross-Site Scripting.
§§ ColdFusion has a rate of 11% SQL Injection vulnerabilities, the highest observed,
followed by ASP with 8% and .NET 6%.
§§ Perl has an observed rate of 67% Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities, over 17% more
than any other language.
§§ There was less than a 2% difference among the languages with Cross-Site Request
Forgery.
§§ Many vulnerabilities classes were not affected by language choice.
Cross-Site Scripting
is a significant issue
across all languages.
Vulnerability class by language (percentage)
ASP ColdFusion .NET Java Perl PHP
Cross-Site Scripting 49 46 35 57 67 56
Information Leakage 29 24 44 15 11 17
Content Spoofing 5 4 5 8 6 7
SQL Injection 8 11 6 1 3 6
Cross-Site Request Forgery 2 2 2 4 4 2
Insufficient Transport Layer Protection 0.8 1 0.9 1 0.3 4
Abuse of Functionality 0.3 6 0.3 0.9 0.5 0.2
HTTP Response Splitting 0.9 3 0.8 2 0.8 0.3
Predictable Resource Location 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.1 1
Brute Force 0.7 0.3 1 2 0.8 1
URL Redirector Abuse 0.7 0.4 0.5 1 1 0.9
Insufficient Authorization 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.9 1 0.2
Fingerprinting 0.3 0.1 0.5 0.6 0.3 0.1
Session Fixation 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.6 0.1 0.3
Directory Indexing - - 0.0 0.0 - 0.3
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Remediation rates
Progress measured
Remediation rate is the key accountability metric in any web application security program.
Affected by many factors – including business functionality, complexity, and priority – the
rate at which vulnerabilities are addressed is a key indicator of application security maturity.
Likewise, languages are affected by unique factors as they pertain to remediation rates.
Some languages have frameworks that make addressing different vulnerability classes
less complex than others. The skill levels of the available programmer resources and the
libraries used directly affect the security of individual languages.
Perl’s remediation rate of XSS vulnerabilities bested the pack boasting an 85% rate. When
it came to addressing SQL Injection vulnerabilities on the other hand, Perl had the lowest
remediation rate of 18%. Perl did have the lowest number of days open for SQL Injection,
so it is apparent that when these vulnerabilities were addressed, they closed faster than
any other language.
SQL Injection had a 96% remediation rate in ColdFusion applications and every single
abuse of functionality vulnerability found in ColdFusion sites was remediated.
Legacy ASP sites exhibited remediation rates on par with other languages while suffering
from large windows of exposure suggesting that there were strategic decisions being
made regarding the maintenance and security of these sites. Classic ASP struggles from
being developed at a time in the history of the web when the breadth of attacks were not
what they are today, yet what we see here is a great amount of effort to keep pace with the
remediation rates of modern frameworks.
There was no immediate data to suggest that language choice greatly affected remediation
rates given that a language such as ASP is able to keep track while PHP lagged much
further behind. The efforts to keep pace may be enough reason to retire these legacy sites,
however more often this choice is based on the need for update functionality.
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0 20 40 60 80 100%
Directory Indexing
Session Fixation
Fingerprinting
Insufficient Authorization
URL Redirector Abuse
Brute Force
Predictable Resource
Location
HTTP Response Splitting
Abuse of Functionality
Insufficient Transport
Layer Protection
Cross-Site Request Forgery
SQL Injection
Content Spoofing
Information Leakage
Cross-Site Scripting
Remediation rates by vulnerability class
■ ASP
■ ColdFusion
■ .NET
■ Java
■ Perl
■ PHP
—
—
—
—
Key findings
§§ Perl remediates 85% of
all Cross-Site Scripting
vulnerabilities, the highest
rate among all languages but
only 18% of SQL Injection.
§§ Net and Java have the same
remediation rate of SQL
Injection at 89%.
§§ ColdFusion remediates 100%
of its Abuse of Functionality
vulnerabilities, 96% of its
SQL Injection, and 87% of
Insufficient Transport Layer
Protection vulnerabilities.
ASP is remediating
at the same rate as
the other languages,
focusing on mission
critical vulnerabilities.
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Industry analysis
Across the board
An oft-repeated response to inquires about the languages their websites use is “a little of
everything,” however, the data showed that organizations tend to have a significant amount
of one or two languages with a very minimal investment in the others. The breakdown is
by far not equally spread, yet what we see is an attempt to approach the security of their
websites as though there were truly a distribution that favored no particular language. This
tends to lead to choices in tools, services and skill sets that may not have enough focus or
expertise on the areas with the greatest financial investment or impact.
There were some definite “favorites” among the industries. No doubt that there exists
correlations between financial drivers and functionality. The Gaming industry favored
PHP for their applications more so than other industries by a staggering amount, 83% of
all the Gaming industries websites were written in PHP, likely due to it’s speed and low
resource consumption. The reason for this was not immediately clear to us, however, the
remediation rates among ASP, ColdFusion, .Net, and Java were considerably higher than
those PHP and Perl sites. PHP was favored by Gaming and Food and Beverage, while Perl
was favored by Manufacturing sectors.
Java enjoyed a relatively even distribution among all of the industries while .Net was a
more favorable language choice to others, namely the Insurance, Pharmaceutical and
Transportation sectors. These two languages remain the number one and two choice for
those industries.
A legacy tale
Financial services favor .Net for their applications, and also maintain the largest number
of legacy ASP applications by a 3:1 ratio. It is unlikely that many, if any, new applications
are being built with classic ASP so it stands to reason that these applications are very
important to revenue-generating and mission-critical applications. The Retail sector had
the second largest collection of classic ASP applications which appear to have a similar
challenge, revenue-generating sites that cannot for one business reason or another be
retired.
This data point became particularly interesting to us when we considered that ASP has
the greatest time-to-fix but has a remediation rate on par with all other languages. These
sites, while unable to be sun-stetted because they are mission-critical and/or revenue-
generating are taking a cost to risk approach of fixing vulnerabilities.
It was not lost on us that both the financial services sector and the retail industry face
heavy regulation and compliance drivers. Our 2013 Website Statistics research showed
that compliance was also the number one reason vulnerabilities went unresolved* so that
did not explain why both of these industry’s legacy sites performed as well they did. In fact,
the driver here was revenue not compliance or regulation.
*2013 Website Statistics Report, https://www.whitehatsec.com/assets/WPstatsReport_052013.pdf.
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0 20 40 60 80 100%
Transport Distribution
Telecommunications
Technology
Social Networking
Retail
Pharmaceutical
Non Profit
Manufacturing
IT
Insurance
Healthcare
Government
Gaming
Food Beverage
Financial Services
Entertainment Media
Energy
Education
Banking
Automotive
Percent of language in use by industry
■ ASP
■ ColdFusion
■ .NET
■ Java
■ Perl
■ PHP
—
—
—
—
—
—
Key findings
§§ Financial Services has the
highest number of ASP sites
by count, by almost 3 to 1.
§§ 83% of Gaming Industry sites
written in PHP.
§§ 49% of the Banking Industry
applications were written in
Java 42% in .Net.
§§ 32% of Manufacturing sites
leveraged Perl as their
language of choice.
§§ The Technology sector wrote
35% of their sites in PHP.
No industry has an
even breakdown.
Everyone skews in
a different direction.
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Recommendations
Language choice
Cross-Site Scripting is the one vulnerability that appears to be affected by language choice,
however, regular assessments and focused remediation efforts can manage that risk.
Language choice begins at the architecture and design stage of application development;
security must begin here as well. Understanding the impact of those decisions early will
help address the management of the risk later on. The practice of choosing languages
based on business needs and functionality is not in question here; those factors are how
our business derives revenue. However, we should not overly rely on frameworks to provide
protection. More security controls in a framework tend to make it harder to remediate
because developers don’t know how to fix it. Instead, solid coding practices and code
review are your best tools. Ensuring that software is tested in all phases of development
and including code reviews of web services as they are critical components to modern
complex web applications.
Governance
Corporate Governance has long since spawned excellent IT governance frameworks.
The inclusion of application security into your existing governance frameworks is vital for
the reduction in the risk that is inherent in web applications. The application investment
decisions should align with the strategic priorities of the information security group. If
budget were no object this would not be necessary, however, budget is limited and
security spending must be allocated to efforts that reduce as much risk as possible while
balancing budgets.
Current governance frameworks can be over-arching and require a herculean effort to apply
to your SDLC process. It is very important to not allow application security governance to
exceed the amount of effort required to deliver a project. If a developer has to spend more
time filling out request for change forms or your security department becomes inundated
by the processes of application assessment, the teams will lose trust in the system and
find ways around it.
When it comes to governance, one-size does not fit-all. This is why the frameworks are
as large as they are. They are intended to serve as a guideline for all. The governance that
you apply to your application security program must match your needs and requirements.
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A risk-based approach
A risk-based approach is a management method for application security that relies on
quantifying risk in dollars and cents as the main driver for security decisions. This approach
cannot be applied during the language selection process, however, that choice is best
made based on business needs and functionality.
The determined risk is then the probability and potential loss magnitude in dollars,
represented by application vulnerabilities.
Once risk is quantified, meaningful comparisons can be made to drive decisions.
These decisions include:
§§ Remediation decisions (to remediate an application vulnerability or not, and when
to remediate)
§§ Prioritization decisions (stack ranking of which vulnerabilities should be
remediated first)
§§ Resource decisions (opportunity cost to apply limited development resources to
fix vulnerabilities)
§§ Funding decisions (establishing business case justifications for web application
security projects, how much budget to allocate towards web application security
versus alternative security budgets)
§§ Policy decisions (establishing policies for handling web application risk –
remediate, mitigate, postpone, transfer, accept)
§§ Exception decisions (e.g. when to allow exceptions to remediation SLAs, and for
how long)