Application Security

Domain Topics
- Application security previously highly neglected area
- Lack of apps security responsible for most common vulnerabilities and attacks
- Developers becoming more aware and proactive
- Applications security affects operating systems, browsers, productivity software, drivers, libraries and all other programs
- Permits network penetration, data theft, denial of service attacks to be successful
- Commonly seen as buffer overflows
- Important for network security professionals to recognize problem, how it manifests, an dhow to stop / prevent it
- Requires attitude / development process change on part of programmers and active management on part of sys admins
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