Blog Posts Tagged with "OWASP"
Why Are We Failing at Software Security?
May 01, 2013 Added by:Nish Bhalla
While there are many granular reasons for software security failures at the institutional, developer or vendor level - there are five industry-wide problems that are fueling the current state of insecurity. These are complicated problems and will not be easy to solve. But until we do, software security will remain at risk.
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Why You Shouldn’t Use the OWASP Top 10 as a List of Software Security Requirements
February 21, 2013 Added by:Rohit Sethi
On February 15, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) came out with its 2013 list of candidates for the Top 10 web application security flaws. The challenge is that while the Top 10 details security flaws, these flaws don’t map cleanly to requirements.
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Rediscovering Our Way: OWASP AppSec Ireland 2012
September 20, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
We can't expect the OWASP community to continue forward as a collection of application-security focused professionals without developer outreach, education, and more outreach. Application (and software) security isn't about security people at all, it's about developers...
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Hooray! An Open-Source Password Analyzer Tool...
June 08, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
The time it takes to crack a password is the only true measure of its worth. Morris has created a tool for administrators that allows them to configure a password policy based on the time to crack, the possible technology that an attacker might be using, and the password protection technology in use...
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Solving Problems from the Security Viewpoint
June 07, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
From experience, there are 3 clearly identified causes for poor adoption of well-intentioned security-built technology into everyday development and systems building... Let's take a look at them and see what can be done to raise the level of adoption from each case...
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Making Things Worse by Asking all the Wrong Questions
May 14, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Blaming OWASP and developers for not adopting secure coding is silly. Uuntil the business cares about security, and developers have an incentive to write more secure code, tools and simple to use transparent technologies like that which OWASP provides won't get utilized...
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Three Areas to Test when Assessing Mobile Applications
May 02, 2012 Added by:Tom Eston
Mobile Application testing is something that will evolve as mobile apps get more complex and the business drives more towards mobile solutions. If you’re deploying mobile apps for your business it’s more important than ever to have testing done on three areas at a minimum....
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Guide to the OWASP Application Security Top Ten
May 01, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
Operating as a community of like-minded professionals, OWASP issues software tools and knowledge-based documentation on application security. All of its articles, methodologies and technologies are made available free of charge to the public...
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The Patchwork Cloud - A Model Driven Approach
April 27, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
As we discussed at OWASP AppSec APAC in Sydney recently, there is still too much focus being given to the security of infrastructure, and we're spending a disproportionate amount of time on the security of networks, servers, etc. rather than actually looking at the applications...
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Reflections on Ten years of Software Security
April 21, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Given a finite amount of time to write a piece of software with specified features and functionality the security of that code will always take a back seat. At least for the time being.Let's face it, code breaks in strange ways that it's not always easy to understand...
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On the Value of Security Conferences
April 19, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
What's interesting is the question of business value. Management sends employees to 'security conferences' to learn something and bring it back to the organization. But what value do the ever-increasing number of security conferences provide as stand-alone events?
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OWASP Releases Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) 1.4.0
April 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications... ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually..."
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Top 5 Things Learned at the SANS Mobile Device Security Summit
March 19, 2012 Added by:Tom Eston
Having a lineup of great speakers really made the summit flow as well as it did. What I liked most about this event was that there were plenty of “real world” talks on how enterprises are setting up and managing mobile deployments…real “in the trenches” types of talks...
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Secure Now or Forever...
February 24, 2012 Added by:Pamela Gupta
Traditional access control is simple, but permission-based access has become challenging – applications that request the user’s permission to access sensitive data explicitly. We are expecting users to be system administrators without adequate training, which is not feasible...
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Focusing on Input Validation
February 11, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
Input validation is the single best defense against injection and XSS vulnerabilities. Done right, proper input validation techniques can make web-applications invulnerable to such attacks. Done wrongly, they are little more than a false sense of security...
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Some "LightReading" about Mobile Application Security
February 10, 2012 Added by:Security Ninja
Developers, project managers and executive officers need to be able to evaluate the risk that they are exposing their customers and their businesses to. They need to know how to measure the security posture of their apps and to make decisions on what changes to make...
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