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Web Application Security

ALSO CALLED: Web-based Application Security, Internet Application Security, and Internet Applications Security
DEFINITION:

A CGI scanner is a program that searches for known vulnerabilities in Web servers and application programs by testing HTTP requests against known CGI (common gateway interface) strings. CGI, which is part of HTTP, is a standard method for Web servers to pass user requests  … 
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Move Web Application Security Testing into Your Development Cycle
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on the role developers can play in solving Web application security issues, and it details how IBM Rational® AppScan® Developer Edition software can enable them to do so.
Posted: 06 Oct 2008 | Published: 04 Oct 2008
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Strengthening Web Application Security: Charting a Robust Strategy That Starts at Development.
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the current dilemma that security auditors face as the bottleneck for Web application deployment.
Posted: 06 Oct 2008 | Published: 04 Oct 2008
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Effectively Managing High-Performing, Business-critical Web Applications
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: This paper details a reliable high-performance web applications services environment that ensures the end user's ability to successfully interact with web applications while enabling it to meet service level Agreements (SLAs).
Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | Published: 24 Sep 2008
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Web Application Security: Too Costly to Ignore
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Web application security is crucial to mitigating the risks of attack and attaining regulatory compliance. Read this white paper for more.
Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | Published: 24 Sep 2008
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Benefits of Integrated Web Application Security
sponsored by Citrix
WHITE PAPER: This paper clarifies the specific security capabilities that an ideal web application delivery solution should exhibit. It also discusses the advantages that a tightly integrated module of the Citrix NetScaler Web application delivery solution presents.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 18 Sep 2008
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Designing Your System i Web Applications Security Plan
sponsored by Bsafe Information Systems
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, Jim Mason, president of ebt-now, describes the security of System i web applications and details System i security concepts and features.
Posted: 02 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2008
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PCI Compliance Cut Costs, Not Corners with Third Brigade®
sponsored by Third Brigade
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how your company can achieve PCI DSS compliance through deploying a host-based security solution directly to data servers instead of utilizing costly devices.
Posted: 29 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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Improving End-User Performance by Eliminating HTTP Chattiness
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: Many organizations embark on global multi-million dollar web application deployments only to later discover that their users are unsatisfied with the performance compared to their old client server application. This paper provides alternatives.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2007
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Improving Web Application Response Time with Application Delivery Networking Technologies
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle Portal, Microsoft Outlook Web Access, and Siebel CRM 7.7 are applications critical to today's organizations. This paper shows how today's web acceleration products reduce bandwidth and increase efficiency.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 28 Apr 2008
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Identifying and Caching Dynamic Web Applications: A Flexible Approach to Solving Performance Issues
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: Dynamic Caching completely changes the caching model, making it possible to cache a much broader variety of content including highly dynamic web pages, query responses, and XML objects. This patented technology is completely unique to F5.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2006
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Application Delivery Controller Performance Report
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: This report documents the performance of the top Application Delivery Controllers offered by F5 Networks, Cisco Systems, and Citrix Netscaler. Through the development and implementation of robust and reproducible testing methods, F5 demonst...
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Overcoming the Challenges of Securing your Web Applications
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: As businesses place more applications on the web, they expose more of their sensitive customer data to hackers. This white paper explains the benefits of application firewalls.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007
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Delivering Comprehensive Security for your Web Applications
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: Most organizations are familiar with application security and Web Application Firewalls, realizing that secure application access and delivery are necessities. This white paper discusses the various avenues to attain this.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Nov 2007
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Enterprise Remote Access
sponsored by F5 Networks
WHITE PAPER: Historically, organizations have used IPSec VPN solutions to provide employees with remote access to network resources; an expensive, complicated deployment for a handful of users. This paper details how this process has modernized.
Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2005
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The Dirty Dozen:The Top Web Application Vulnerabilies and How to Hunt Them down at the Source
sponsored by Ounce Labs
WHITE PAPER: Through this white paper, you will discover the top critical design and coding errors that, with today's new technologies, can be identified, analyzed, and eliminated at the source.
Posted: 13 Feb 2005 | Published: 25 Jan 2005
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WEB APPLICATION SECURITY DEFINITION (continued): … 

A CGI scanner is a program that searches for known vulnerabilities in Web servers and application programs by testing HTTP requests against known CGI (common gateway interface) strings. CGI, which is part of HTTP, is a standard method for Web servers to pass user requests to Web application programs and send data back from those programs to the user.

The most significant limitation of GCI scanners is the fact that they often fail to detect the presence of vulnerabilities not previously defined. A more comprehensive program, called a Web application security scanner, seeks out and flags all anomalies, as well as known problems, within application programs.
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