Summary
The cloud has transformed the way businesses operate. Moving to the cloud enables organizations to increase workforce flexibility, improve process efficiencies, and enhance their long-term scalability and resilience.
At the same time, the cloud also creates serious security risks. Cloud applications are vulnerable to malicious actors because they are often open to the internet and carry sensitive data. Organizations must secure their cloud-based applications to minimize the threat of serious cyberattacks and business-crippling data breaches. The consequences of not doing so can be fatal.
Since most of the web applications are internet-facing, they enable threat actors to slip past enterprise security defenses and engineer all kinds of dangerous cyberattacks. To protect their applications, organizations must take application security seriously.
The OWASP Top 10 list provides a good starting point to identify vulnerabilities in web applications. By following its guidelines...
