Web is the critical part of any business today and more so when you do transactions using the web as a medium. There are three critical factors that become important such as availability, confidentiality and integrity of the data. It becomes mandatory for every organization to take a proactive web security approach to safeguard themselves from any attacks that jeopardize their business and erode brand value. When it comes to web security, there are broadly three types and there are different ways by which they can be addressed.

1. How important is the vulnerability assessment of your web property?
Web is the critical part of any business today and more so when you do transactions
using the web as a medium. There are three critical factors that become important such
as availability, confidentiality and integrity of the data. It becomes mandatory for every
organization to take a proactive web security approach to safeguard themselves from
any attacks that jeopardize their business and erode brand value.
When it comes to web security, there are broadly three types and there are different
ways by which they can be addressed.
1. Network level security – at the data center level, this can be hardened through
usage of industry-grade firewalls and authentication services. This is in addition to
the hardening of the operating system used, kind of frameworks used for the web
etc.
2. Application level security – this is very critical in terms of vulnerabilities that it can
throw. Some of the good practices followed would be test every release in the
staging server before it get to production, use scout and scanning services for
monitoring, validate security configuration after applying patches, constant
monitoring and updation of applied patches and security releases, review custom
built libraries
3. Live monitoring – have defined governance mechanisms and response strategy
for any attacks, and monitor performance on a continuous basis. Governance
mechanism may include faster prioritization of vulnerabilities and remediation
activities
This would take care of most possible external attacks and ensure availability of web
property without compromising the privacy and confidentiality of transactional data,
while ensuring faster turnaround time in case of breaches.
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