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The number of cyber attacks has grown steadily during the last few years. In 2016, 758 million malicious attacks occurred according to KasperskyLab, (an attack launched every 40 seconds) and there is no doubt that 2019 will break the record.

Davey Winder, our guest blogger and an award-winning security journalist, explains the role of Shifting Left for Secure Application Development

Local File Inclusion - aka LFI - is one of the most common Web Application vulnerabilities. If conducted successfully, It might allow attackers to read sensitive information, access configuration files or even execute system commands remotely.

Today, companies are the primary target for hackers because of the sensitive data they hold. Cloud and Big Data technologies are fantastic tools to analyze and manage a large amount of data, but they are often not as secure as they should be. So while companies are benefiting from the availability of such applications to improve their productivity, IT security teams are hit with a wealth of security issues - they've never experienced such lousy visibility for key assets and data, it is hence more important than ever to strengthen the need for web applications testing.

With digital transformation, a lot of companies invest and add layers of technology to their business using DevOps, Cloud and web applications for example. And with the DevOps approach always pushing to improve apps, security remain one of the companies' biggest challenge.  

Application security is evolving but it has yet to catch up with the abundance of risks that web applications now present. Threats to web apps are becoming an even greater challenge for DevOps on a near daily basis and many businesses are still using risk management plans that simply do not cut it.

Web application vulnerabilities are some of the most common flaws leading to modern data breaches. SQL injection (SQLi) and Local File Inclusion (LFI) attacks represented for 85% of Web Application attacks, XSS counted for only 9%.

Local File Inclusion - aka LFI - is one of the most common Web Application vulnerabilities. If conducted successfully, It might allow attackers to read sensitive information, access configuration files or even execute system commands remotely.

Cross Site Scripting, or XSS, is one of the most common type of vulnerabilities in web applications. Discover how to avoid Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

In the digital age, web application penetration testing is one of the most critical elements of an organization’s vulnerability management program. In this blog post we will explain the role of penetration testing plays in protecting your organization against web-related exploitations