Nowadays, many components from web applications are commonly run on the user’s computer (such as JavaScript), and not just on the application’s provider server (such as Servlets). As time goes by, there is the need for web applications to provide a multitude of services to…
Category Whitepapers
Web Application Firewalls do not replace secure development and operation of web applications
In eval($WAF); whitepaper, L. Nothdurfter, W.Neudorfer and M. Kirchner from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, explain in detail how they evaluated the capabilities of some leading WAF’s (web application firewall), and concluded that although a WAF can raise the security level, secure development…
Acunetix Publishes PCI Compliance Guide
The paper aims to help companies meet impending PCI requirements London, UK – May 30, 2007 – Businesses that rely on payment by credit cards are required to comply with the PCI security standards by September 2007. Non compliance could result in loss of merchant…