Tales from the Road: Think Your Web Application is Attacker-Proof? Think again.

How We Put One Client’s Web App Security to the Ultimate Test Did you know that web applications have become the #1 target for the exploitation of vulnerabilities? Check out these alarming stats: Researchers found around 70 types of weaknesses in web applications. (Source: PT Security) 46% of web applications have critical vulnerabilities. (Acunetix’s report… Read more »

2020 In Review: What a Wild Ride!

Assessing the Cost of Security Vulnerabilities During a Pandemic Year As everyone is aware, the pandemic of 2020 made conducting business, even at a basic level, challenging. Organizations were faced with managing their existing security vulnerabilities, in addition to adapting their information security to the “new normal”. In March, companies across the U.S. completed a… Read more »

CSRF

CSRF in the Age of JSON

The Complexities Created by Using JavaScript Object Notation to Transfer Data Among the web application vulnerability tests that we perform at DirectDefense is an application security assessment for CSRF. CSRF, or Cross-Site Request Forgery, is an attack that takes advantage of the predictability of requests and browsers’ automatic submission of session cookies to perform unintended… Read more »

I’ve Got 4658 Problems, and All of Them Are in Security Center

Overwhelmed by Azure Security Center? We can help. Azure Security Center can help identify and remediate vulnerabilities on your cloud resources that might go unnoticed. Security Center provides a unified security management system that can provide security insights, detect vulnerabilities and best practice deficiencies, as well as protect against threats. But as your environment grows,… Read more »