Application Security

Application security

Sinhasoft Web Technologies Pvt Ltd is engaged in an ongoing process to continually improve the security of the applications it develops. The application security team at Sinhasoft Web Technologies Pvt Ltd is involved in all stages of the software development lifecycle to ensure that security is addressed, from requirements gathering, to design and architecture, through coding and testing, and finally ongoing maintenance once the software is released.

We welcome active engagement with our customers and the security research community to improve overall product security and to reduce the risk that any customer's environment could be compromised.

Application Security Services helps you assess current and future web use requirements. It then provides the layered security protection you need to address today’s worst threats. Businesses and users alike can protect themselves by applying basic security best practices around passwords, network segmentation and security-rich software development.

Web Application security

Web application security is a central component of any web-based business. The global nature of the Internet exposes web properties to attack from different locations and various levels of scale and complexity. Web application security deals specifically with the security surrounding websites, web applications and web services such as APIs.

• Cross site scripting (XSS)
• SQL injection (SQi)
• Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
• Memory corruption
• Buffer overflow
• Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
• Data breach

Web Application Security Checklist

In addition to WAFs, there are a number of methods for securing web applications. The following processes should be part of any web application security checklist:

Information gathering – Manually review the application, identifying entry points and client-side codes. Classify third-party hosted content.

Authorization – Test the application for path traversals; vertical and horizontal access control issues; missing authorization and insecure, direct object references.

Cryptography – Secure all data transmissions. Has specific data been encrypted? Have weak algorithms been used? Do randomness errors exist?

Denial of service – Improve an application’s resilience against denial of service threats by testing for anti-automation, account lockout, HTTP protocol DoS and SQL wildcard DoS. This doesn’t cover protection from high-volume DoS and DDoS attacks, which are best countered by a combination of filtering solutions and scalable resources.