This document summarizes the findings of a study on the state of web application security. The study found that while data theft is seen as the biggest threat, organizations are not allocating sufficient resources to secure critical web applications. Specifically:
- 70% of respondents said their organizations do not allocate enough resources for web application security.
- 34% of urgent vulnerabilities are not fixed in a timely manner.
- Proactive organizations spend more than twice as much (25% vs 12%) on web application security and are more likely to use firewalls and cloud-based solutions than reactive organizations.
Insightful Research: The State of Mobile Application Insecurity Casey Lucas
The State of Mobile Application Insecurity
Customer need and demand often affect mobile application security. 65% of the participants in this study strongly agree that the security of mobile apps is sometimes put at risk because of expanding customer demand or need.
That said, the purpose of this research is to understand how companies are reducing the risk of unsecured mobile apps in the workplace.
Ponemon Institute surveyed 640 individuals involved in the application development and security process in their organizations on the following topics:
- Why mobile application security eludes many organizations.
- The difficulty in controlling employees’ risky behaviors.
- Are organizations taking the right steps to secure mobile apps?
We are pleased to present the findings of The State of Mobile Application Insecurity sponsored by IBM. The purpose of this research is to understand how companies are reducing the risk of unsecured mobile apps in the workplace.
Insightful Research: The State of Mobile Application Insecurity Casey Lucas
The State of Mobile Application Insecurity
Customer need and demand often affect mobile application security. 65% of the participants in this study strongly agree that the security of mobile apps is sometimes put at risk because of expanding customer demand or need.
That said, the purpose of this research is to understand how companies are reducing the risk of unsecured mobile apps in the workplace.
Ponemon Institute surveyed 640 individuals involved in the application development and security process in their organizations on the following topics:
- Why mobile application security eludes many organizations.
- The difficulty in controlling employees’ risky behaviors.
- Are organizations taking the right steps to secure mobile apps?
We are pleased to present the findings of The State of Mobile Application Insecurity sponsored by IBM. The purpose of this research is to understand how companies are reducing the risk of unsecured mobile apps in the workplace.
Greatest It Security Risks of 2014: 5th Annual State of Endpoint RiskLumension
Organizations around the world are losing intellectual property and customer data to cyber criminals at mind-boggling rates. How is this happening?
For 5 consecutive years, the annual State of the Endpoint Report, conducted by Ponemon Institute, has surveyed IT practitioners involved in securing endpoints. This year’s report reveals endpoint security risk is more difficult to minimize than ever before. What are IT pros most concerned about heading into 2014? From the proliferation of mobile devices, third party applications, and targeted attacks/APTs, endpoint security risk for 2014 is becoming more of a challenge to manage.
Larry Ponemon of the Ponemon Institute reveals statistics on growing insecurity, IT’s perceived areas of greatest risk for 2014 as well as tactical suggestions for how to improve your endpoint security. Specifically, you will learn:
•IT perspective on the changing threat landscape and today’s Top 5 risks;
•Disconnect between perceived risk and corresponding strategies to combat those threats;
•Tips and tricks on how to best communicate today’s threats and subsequent needed responses up the management chain
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.
The past few years have seen an explosion of cyber attacks, and with the 2015 OPM breaches underscoring the vulnerability of government data, agencies are racing to implement proactive, holistic cybersecurity measures. In order to measure changing federal perceptions and experiences regarding the present threat landscape, Government Business Council (GBC) and Dell conducted an in-depth research survey as a follow-up to a previous June 2014 GBC study.
The Shifting State of Endpoint Risk: Key Strategies to Implement in 2011Lumension
The State of Endpoint Risk 2011 study, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, has been published. Learn the latest endpoint protection best practices that can assist in your 2011 security planning, including:
• Increasingly sophisticated malware and the associated costs
• The top 5 applications that concern IT the most
• Third-party and Web 2.0 application usage policies and the importance of security awareness training programs
• Effective methods to communicate with senior management on evolving endpoint risk and its impact to the business
• Technologies that effectively prevent targeted malware and cyber attacks
The top challenges to expect in network security in 2019 survey report Bricata, Inc.
The Bricata team conducted a survey to ask cybersecurity professionals about the challenges and opportunities they face in network security.
64% of respondents say network security is harder this year as compared to last and for a range of reasons. This includes the sophistication of threats, but also the proliferation of IT infrastructure and the complexity of environments given that changes stemming from cloud, IoT and BYOD, among others.
While insider threats (44%) and IT infrastructure (42%) topped the list of network security challenges no single topic drew a simple majority. Lack of leadership support, security technology interoperability, shadow IT, BYOD and the deluge of security alerts were among the top 10.
Most organizations used between 1-10 tools for the purpose of network security. About one-third of respondents said these tools were not integrated, while another 28% said these tools were just somewhat integrated. No respondents indicated tools in their environment were completely integrated.
About a quarter (26%) of respondents say their organization receives 1,000 or more security alerts per day. More importantly, the vast majority (84%) say these require 5 or more minutes each to triage. “A decent number of false-positives waste quite a bit of time,” wrote one respondent. “On the other hand, some alerts are- -critical, but we are missing vital information, which we then spend ages trying to locate.” Some admit they just can’t review all alerts.
While just about one-third (32%) say they are doing threat hunting today – a majority (61%) of respondents believe that threat hunting will be either more important or much more important in the next 12 months.
Security analytics, security integration and behavioral analysis were the top three areas of security respondents said organizations should focus on over the next year. Interestingly, collaboration out ranked machine learning and AI as a recommended area of focus.
Some 34% of respondents said the relationship between security and DevOps is strong, while 27% said it isn’t. By contrast, 51% of respondents said the relationship between security and the business is strong, while 22% said it isn’t.
Malware infections or exploited vulnerabilities could significantly impact the safety of customer information so that, before your business has time to react, your public-facing website could be infected and blacklisted by search
engines, customer trust could be compromised whilst
the clean-up in the aftermath of an attack could wreak
havoc with your brand. With increasingly smart malware infections and consequent online data loss, your business must do more than simply react to website security issues.
In today’s interconnected world, few things terrify CEOs and CTOs more than electronic security (well, a breach of that security, anyway). Most of our records, personal information, corporate information, and sensitive data exist online or on Internet-connected hardware. Mobile, with all it’s advantages for enterprises, actually poses one of the largest emerging threats to those enterprises’ data security. As such, we wanted to share some statistics that demonstrate the severity of the problem and highlight the importance of mobile security for your business.
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.
Cyberthreats broke new ground with mobile devices, while reaching deeper into social media. Online criminals also stepped up attacks via email, web and other traditional vectors.
In a survey of U.S. technology and healthcare executives nationwide, Silicon Valley Bank found that companies believe cyber attacks are a serious threat to both their data and their business continuity.
Highlights
- 98% are maintaining or increasing resources devoted to cyber security
- 50% are increasing their cyber security resources, preparing for when, not if, cyber attacks occur
- Just 35% are completely or very confident in the security of their company information, and only 16% feel the same about their business partners
Greatest It Security Risks of 2014: 5th Annual State of Endpoint RiskLumension
Organizations around the world are losing intellectual property and customer data to cyber criminals at mind-boggling rates. How is this happening?
For 5 consecutive years, the annual State of the Endpoint Report, conducted by Ponemon Institute, has surveyed IT practitioners involved in securing endpoints. This year’s report reveals endpoint security risk is more difficult to minimize than ever before. What are IT pros most concerned about heading into 2014? From the proliferation of mobile devices, third party applications, and targeted attacks/APTs, endpoint security risk for 2014 is becoming more of a challenge to manage.
Larry Ponemon of the Ponemon Institute reveals statistics on growing insecurity, IT’s perceived areas of greatest risk for 2014 as well as tactical suggestions for how to improve your endpoint security. Specifically, you will learn:
•IT perspective on the changing threat landscape and today’s Top 5 risks;
•Disconnect between perceived risk and corresponding strategies to combat those threats;
•Tips and tricks on how to best communicate today’s threats and subsequent needed responses up the management chain
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.
The past few years have seen an explosion of cyber attacks, and with the 2015 OPM breaches underscoring the vulnerability of government data, agencies are racing to implement proactive, holistic cybersecurity measures. In order to measure changing federal perceptions and experiences regarding the present threat landscape, Government Business Council (GBC) and Dell conducted an in-depth research survey as a follow-up to a previous June 2014 GBC study.
The Shifting State of Endpoint Risk: Key Strategies to Implement in 2011Lumension
The State of Endpoint Risk 2011 study, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, has been published. Learn the latest endpoint protection best practices that can assist in your 2011 security planning, including:
• Increasingly sophisticated malware and the associated costs
• The top 5 applications that concern IT the most
• Third-party and Web 2.0 application usage policies and the importance of security awareness training programs
• Effective methods to communicate with senior management on evolving endpoint risk and its impact to the business
• Technologies that effectively prevent targeted malware and cyber attacks
The top challenges to expect in network security in 2019 survey report Bricata, Inc.
The Bricata team conducted a survey to ask cybersecurity professionals about the challenges and opportunities they face in network security.
64% of respondents say network security is harder this year as compared to last and for a range of reasons. This includes the sophistication of threats, but also the proliferation of IT infrastructure and the complexity of environments given that changes stemming from cloud, IoT and BYOD, among others.
While insider threats (44%) and IT infrastructure (42%) topped the list of network security challenges no single topic drew a simple majority. Lack of leadership support, security technology interoperability, shadow IT, BYOD and the deluge of security alerts were among the top 10.
Most organizations used between 1-10 tools for the purpose of network security. About one-third of respondents said these tools were not integrated, while another 28% said these tools were just somewhat integrated. No respondents indicated tools in their environment were completely integrated.
About a quarter (26%) of respondents say their organization receives 1,000 or more security alerts per day. More importantly, the vast majority (84%) say these require 5 or more minutes each to triage. “A decent number of false-positives waste quite a bit of time,” wrote one respondent. “On the other hand, some alerts are- -critical, but we are missing vital information, which we then spend ages trying to locate.” Some admit they just can’t review all alerts.
While just about one-third (32%) say they are doing threat hunting today – a majority (61%) of respondents believe that threat hunting will be either more important or much more important in the next 12 months.
Security analytics, security integration and behavioral analysis were the top three areas of security respondents said organizations should focus on over the next year. Interestingly, collaboration out ranked machine learning and AI as a recommended area of focus.
Some 34% of respondents said the relationship between security and DevOps is strong, while 27% said it isn’t. By contrast, 51% of respondents said the relationship between security and the business is strong, while 22% said it isn’t.
Malware infections or exploited vulnerabilities could significantly impact the safety of customer information so that, before your business has time to react, your public-facing website could be infected and blacklisted by search
engines, customer trust could be compromised whilst
the clean-up in the aftermath of an attack could wreak
havoc with your brand. With increasingly smart malware infections and consequent online data loss, your business must do more than simply react to website security issues.
In today’s interconnected world, few things terrify CEOs and CTOs more than electronic security (well, a breach of that security, anyway). Most of our records, personal information, corporate information, and sensitive data exist online or on Internet-connected hardware. Mobile, with all it’s advantages for enterprises, actually poses one of the largest emerging threats to those enterprises’ data security. As such, we wanted to share some statistics that demonstrate the severity of the problem and highlight the importance of mobile security for your business.
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.
Cyberthreats broke new ground with mobile devices, while reaching deeper into social media. Online criminals also stepped up attacks via email, web and other traditional vectors.
In a survey of U.S. technology and healthcare executives nationwide, Silicon Valley Bank found that companies believe cyber attacks are a serious threat to both their data and their business continuity.
Highlights
- 98% are maintaining or increasing resources devoted to cyber security
- 50% are increasing their cyber security resources, preparing for when, not if, cyber attacks occur
- Just 35% are completely or very confident in the security of their company information, and only 16% feel the same about their business partners
The Stand Against Cyber Criminals Lawyers, Take The Stand Against Cyber Crimi...Symantec
Many law firms would suffer greatly from being breached due
to the extreme sensitive data they are handling on a daily basis.
Any cyber attack in this sector can be catastrophic so do lawyers
feel ready to stand against the rising tide of cybercrime?
With this in mind, Symantec, in conjunction with the law
publication Managing Partner, conducted a study into how law firms see cyber security.
Perception Gaps in Cyber Resilience: What Are Your Blind Spots?Sarah Nirschl
Protecting enterprise systems against cyber threats is a strategic priority, yet only 42% of executives are confident they could recover without impacting their business from a cyber event. Find out the hidden risks of shadow IT, cloud and cyber insurance.
Cybersecurity is ensuring business continuity by protecting their organization’s digital assets, including sensitive data, from attack or employee negligence.
Amid rising global tensions at a time when nations are deploying IT armies and enacting cybersecurity mandates, what is the state of cybersecurity in Q1, 2022?
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The purpose of the study is to explore web security status of the E-Governance websites and web applications. The central theme of the paper is to study and analyze the security vulnerabilities in the technologies utilized for E-Governance website and web application development. The study was conducted in the State of Gujarat,India. The data related to web development technologies, vulnerabilities affecting those technologies, vulnerability severity, and vulnerability type were gathered from 26 E-Governance website/Web application for detail analysis. The outcome of the study depicts the relationship between technology vis-a-vis vulnerability type and vulnerability severity.
Building an Infrastructure that Secures and Protects
In June and July 2011, the Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a global survey, sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton, of 387 executives to assess attitudes toward cybersecurity, and their progress towards implementing resilience strategies. Learn more: http://www.boozallen.com/insights/expertvoices/cyber-power
Enable best-of-breed security testing for enterprise, web and
mobile applications
• Facilitate application security testing for your customers at the
appropriate stage of their development lifecycle
• Identify security vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and
cross-site scripting (XSS)
• Automate correlation of static, dynamic and interactive application
security testing results
• Deliver detailed reporting to your customers that summarise
security vulnerabilities, assesses potential risk and offers
remediation tactics
The time-honored custom of building the app and then making security features the final step before delivery doesn’t work anymore. Instead, security must be integrated throughout the software development process—hence the growth of #SecDevOps in parallel with #DevOps.
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Similar to State of Web Application Security by Ponemon Institute (20)
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.
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.
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.
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.
http://blackhat.com/us-13/briefings.html#Grossman
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.
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.
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:
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.
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
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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
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.