In recent years, the cyber-attacks have become rampant across computer systems, networks, websites and have been most widely attacking enterprises’ core business web applications, causing shock waves across the IT world.It is critical to follow a cyber-security incident response plan and risk management plan to overcome cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Evidently, CXOs need to leverage web application security testing and penetration testing to overcome the possible attacks on their business applications and systems

1. APIs are essential for creating an effective and connected experience for customers
and thus businesses are beginning to realize their value. Understanding the depth of its
role with respect to applications, hence the importance of API testing has come into
place.
This specific testing involves testing of the application interfaces directly as part of the
integration testing to determine if the application perfectly meets the expectations for
functionality, performance, reliability and security.
Use Web Application Firewalls
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7 Measures
to Overcome
Cyber Attacks of
Web Application
Whenever changes are made to the application with releases, WAF also needs to be
updated and this takes time and involves man power. But, the latest technology,
Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) is the best option and is being effectively
used today. This approach helps to reduce human intervention and helps to safeguard
web applications from threats.
Adopt New Technologies for Application Security
As soon as the apps are released into production, it is necessary to evaluate behavior
of the application as to know the traffic patterns of users. If any activity of either high
traffic or low traffic is observed, then it might be caused due to the influence of any
possible malicious attack. More importantly, if your application generates any
exceptions or logs, then care should be taken to evaluate if there has been any
possible attack on the app.
Monitor Security of Apps in Production
Specific Container firewalls are used to inspect traffic within the container and helps
to protect the application from attacks that arise internally. Some of the components
of these container firewalls are Application intelligence, Cloud-native, Whitelist and
Blacklist based regulations, Integration and management with containers and the
most important is their compatibility with Continuous Integration and Continuous
Development CI/CD approach.
Use Container Firewalls
There are certain tools offered by Open Web Security Project (OWASP) which should
be used to assess Software Assurance Maturity Model. These tools help to deliver a
comprehensive check for testing the security of your web applications and ensures
that no vulnerabilities are missed during the testing process.
Conduct Periodic Maturity Assessments of
Application Security Processes
There are certain tools offered by Open Web Security Project (OWASP) which should
be used to assess Software Assurance Maturity Model. These tools help to deliver a
comprehensive check for testing the security of your web applications and ensures
that no vulnerabilities are missed during the testing process.
Prioritize Remediation Based on Severity
Enterprises should be prepared for web application security breaches and hence
should plan ahead to handle it. The various phases of the Incident Response Plan
include Identification, Containment, Eradication, Recovery and Post Incident Activity.
The initial Identification phase should include finding out all security breaches such as XSS attack,
LDAP injection, failure to restrict URL access, SQL injection attack or OS command injections
possibilities.
The Containment phase includes steps to mitigate the impact of incidents on various targeted
environments.
Plans should be effectively made in the Eradication phase to replace the hacked or defaced page with
a clean page and try usage of anti-virus tools, or changing passwords as per the need or uninstalling
OS that lead to the attack. This Eradication phase is a priority and if the application is made available
to the end-users without eradicating various threats, then it might also affect the brand, customer
loyalty and might cause economic losses.
Hence, these security incident plans help to protect and reduce the impact of attacks, report the incident
and ensure
Prepare Incident Response and Recovery Plan