SECURITY STANDARDS FOR WEB APPLICATIONS

Grela AJVAZI, Florim IDRIZI, Agon MEMETI, Bleran VESELI

Abstract

Application security refers to security measures used at the application level to protect against stealing or hacking of data or program code. It includes security considerations that take place throughout application development and design, as well as systems and methods to protect apps after they are put into use. Like any software, web applications inherently have issues. Some of these issues represent genuine vulnerabilities that can be used against organizations. Security for web applications guards against these defects. It entails utilizing secure development methodologies and putting security controls in place at every stage of the software development life cycle (SDLC), making sure that both implementation- and design-level bugs are fixed. Development teams must follow web application security standards to defend software organizations from attack, as online applications are currently the number one target of proven security breaches. In this article, I'll attempt to explain how web application security works and what developers truly need to do to create secure applications that allow users to enter any data. We will also highlight certain standards that have been developed by various security organizations that have attempted to develop a safe online application in order to make it as simple as possible to comprehend the security of web apps.

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