Web Application Security a Growing Threat for Businesses

A new report by security vendor Cenzic shares research indicating that security flaws found in Web applications continue to grow and should be a major concern for many businesses, including SMEs, as more and more depend on the Web for their business. According to the report, almost 80 percent of more than 3,000 software security flaws publicly reported this year have been in web technologies such as web servers, applications, plug-ins, and web browsers. That number is about 10 percent higher than the number of flaws reported in the same period last year — and 9 out of 10 of the flaws were found in commercial code. The top 10 vulnerabilities for the first half of 2009 included familiar names such as Sun, IBM, Mozilla, Apache, and Safari, where most Web applications were found to have vulnerabilities related to information leaks and exposures, Cross-Site Scripting , and session management. Are you using the web for your business? Concerned about the security of your data and information? Contact us and see how we can help. Related articles: Web application security is growing problem for enterprises (infoworld.com) Firefox flaws make up 44% of all browser bugs? (theregister.co.uk) Vulnerabilities Whitehat Security (ecombizcenter.blogspot.com)