Chapter 14
Application Security
This chapter covers the following topics:
Identifying Potential Risks: This section introduces some of the
concepts involved in application security and shows how to identify
potential risks in applications.
Protecting Applications: This section shows how to protect an
application from various vulnerabilities using various frameworks and
also by leveraging firewalls, IDSs, and IPSs.
Application security involves making applications
more secure by proactively finding, fixing, and
enhancing the safety of applications. Much of what
happens during the development phase includes tools
and methods to protect apps once they are deployed.
Today, application security is paramount. Through the
years, many tools have emerged to secure networks,
storage, and even code. Various coding tools and
methodologies can be used to access inadvertent code
threats.
In this chapter, you will learn about application
security issues and how applications can be secured
using modern networking components. This chapter
also provides an overview of the Open Web
Application Security Project (OWASP) and what it
brings to the table for application developers.“DO I KNOW THIS ALREADY?” QUIZ
The “Do I Know This Already?” quiz allows you to assess
whether you should read this entire chapter thoroughly
or jump to the “Exam Preparation Tasks” section. If you
are in doubt about your answers to these questions or