5 Ways to improve the web application security of your business

With the advancements in web application and other technology, the way we do business, access and share information have witnessed the drastic transformation. Enterprises have moved a number of their operations online to help employees from remote offices and partners from other countries to share critical data in real time and work towards a common goal.

Today, the protection of WEB App is of pivotal importance and considered at the same level of security like the private property or intellectual rights. Not taking safety measures in time may lead to catastrophic consequences. Below are some of the possible actions business owners must consider for protecting their WEB Apps:

1. Adhering to OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Top Ten – The OWASP Top Ten contains the most crucial vulnerabilities of the web application security, as determined, and agreed upon, by the security experts across the world. These vulnerabilities target the application’s confidentiality, integrity, and availability, the developers, and the users. They cover attack vectors like injection attacks, security misconfiguration, session and authentication management, sensitive data exposure and more. By being aware of how they work, and through secured coding, the developed applications stand a better chance of not being infringed.
2. Getting an Application Security Audit Done – The team of developers who had developed the application lives and breathed the code every day. It makes it difficult for them to critique the app objectively. It makes it necessary to get the application reviewed by the people who have never seen it before. It will make the audit free from any pre-assumptions about the code, what it does, or biased by anyone or anything within the organization.
3. Using Real-time Security Protection and Monitoring – The security measures of applications would remain incomplete if we don’t take classic as well as web application firewalls into consideration. The web application firewall helps to protect your application from both internal and external concerns.
4. Encrypting Everything – It is essential that you always use encryption holistically for protecting your web application. Ensure that the data at rest is encrypted as well. Also, using HTTPS reduces the chances of Man In The Middle (MITM) attacks occurrence to minimal.
5. Up To Date Maintainance of Servers and Software – For optimal security, it is significant to make sure that all your servers are set to update as soon as the latest security releases become available. Also, the third party software libraries and frameworks, just like operating systems are prone to vulnerabilities. It is vital to ensure that the latest available versions are in use — if at all possible.

Conclusion – By sharing these top five security measures for the web application, we want you to ensure that you are using the best practices for protecting your web application from malware. Also, the security landscape is transforming far too quickly, choose your web-based application development services provider wisely and confirm that it is having all the applicable safety practices at par.

I have been learning mobile app development since 2012. By having a good understanding of programming languages, I develop native as well as web apps for both iOS & Android. I also love to write on technical topics.