Tag: Application Security

The Best Defense Against Injection Attacks is to Protect Your Legacy App

How DirectDefense accessed sensitive financial and personal data through injection vulnerabilities The best defense against injection attacks is to secure legacy applications by leveraging an app security assessment. Got a legacy app? Then listen up: Legacy applications can be particularly susceptible to injection attacks and organizations should take immediate action to remediate this vulnerability before… Read more »

Tales from the Road: Taking Control of Access Controls to Protect Sensitive Data from Unauthorized Users

How a recent DirectDefense application security assessment revealed a common vulnerability. A large financial corporation recently called on us to perform a comprehensive security assessment of their client-facing application. Among other findings, the engagement revealed just how easy it would be for someone with ill-intent to exploit the application via access controls that were not… Read more »