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Application Security

• Security measures, security programs, and security controls designed to protect applications against attacks by cybercriminals seeking unauthorized access to an organization's IT ecosystem.

• Set of best practices, functions and/or features added to a company's software.

• Objective: Prevent and resolve cybercriminal threats, data breaches and other dangers.

Threats

• Most application threats are designed to exploit software weaknesses and vulnerabilities.

• These application vulnerabilities can allow attackers to access databases, corrupt information, exfiltrate sensitive data, download malware, or make applications unavailable via a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

Recommended Practices

• Web application firewalls: can be used to inspect and filter malicious traffic.

• Bot management solutions: allow organizations to grant access to good bots while stopping malicious bots.

• DDoS mitigation technology: prevents/mitigates “DDoS” attacks, which can slow performance or even take machines and applications offline.

• API security solutions: protect against attacks specifically designed to exploit weaknesses in APIs ("application programming interface").

Importance

• Modern web applications and APIs are business-critical technologies that enable virtually all online interactions.

• Known web vulnerabilities continue to pose risks.

• As applications and APIs become more complex, they create new vulnerabilities and potential endpoints for hackers.

• The more an organization depends on these IT assets, the more important it is to protect them from a wide range of threats.

Challenges

• Traditional solutions deploy web application firewalls designed to mitigate many types of threats.

• These solutions require cybersecurity teams to continually analyze and adjust rules as threats evolve and applications and APIs are updated.

• This is a time-consuming and difficult manual process.

• Security permissions become obsolete quickly.

• You cannot adjust authentication and validation rules effectively.

• This could lead to a "relaxation" of security measures.

Stages

• During development: establishing best practices is most often done in the application development phases.

• Post-development: companies can also take advantage of different post-development tools and services (some enforce code changes, others monitor code for threats, while others establish data encryption).

Benefits

• Reduces risk from both internal and third-party sources.

• Maintains the security of customer data.

• Increases customer confidence.

• Protects sensitive data from leaks.

• Protects the brand image.

• Improves confidence of crucial investors and lenders.

Types of Tools

• Security testing tools: established market that intends to analyze the security status of applications.

• Security shielding tools: protect and harden applications to make it much more difficult to breach.

Security Testing Tools

• Static application security testing: monitors specific points of code during the application development process.

• Dynamic application security testing: detects security gaps in running code.

• Mobile application security testing: detects gaps in mobile environments.

Security Shielding Tools

• Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP): combines testing and protection strategies; these tools monitor application behavior in both desktop and mobile environments.

• Code/application obfuscation and encryption/anti-tamper software: prevent cybercriminals from hacking into an application's code.

• Threat detection tools: they are responsible for analyzing the environment in which applications run; can assess the state of that environment, detect potential threats, and can even check whether a mobile device has been compromised due to the device's unique "fingerprints."

Whether you are self-employed, an SME or a large company, at U2-LAB™ we help you with everything you need, at all times, from the beginning of the project to its completion and beyond, so that you have peace of mind and can dedicate yourself to what really matters: growing your business/company and offering your clients services of the highest quality, effective and efficient.