How to Ensure Web Application Security

Web security is closely related to your application environment and usage.

At present, enterprise users are all developing towards full business. The focus of the security situation has evolved from the old network security to application security and full business security. The essence of doing this well is that our enterprise users should have a good business support environment and security awareness.

How to avoid security problems in the era where applications are king

With the rapid development of Internet technology, various services based on the traditional network architecture have gradually changed to application systems based on the B/S architecture. The business category is increasing, and the application complexity is also increasing. People gradually find that the protection at the traditional network layer cannot guarantee the safe operation of services. To improve business system security, you need to consider business processes, application architecture, application systems, and other aspects to find a solution. Therefore, the focus on application security is also increasing.

In the face of the surging application threats, the vast majority of enterprises are not truly aware of the crisis. On the one hand, malicious websites are growing rapidly at a rate of 600% per year. On the other hand, 77% of websites with malicious code are legitimate websites implanted with malicious attack code. If the former can be avoided, the latter, as an arrow, can easily attack innocent websites to access users, thus endangering the company's reputation.

Old cybersecurity VS Web Application Security Products

With the development of business diversity, more and more security events have been transferred from the network layer to the application layer and tend to pursue interests. In the past, destructive attack methods have been gradually abandoned, instead, the information is obtained. With the change in attack methods, the deployment policies of security products have also changed dramatically. Traditional products have long been unable to meet the security protection requirements of applications, this emerging security threat is completely "self-deceiving". What we can't do is to instill such capabilities, so we don't need to consider this from the perspective of user security!

At present, many enterprises adopt network security defense technology to protect Web applications, such as using network firewalls, IDS, patch security management, and software upgrades, however, these methods are difficult to effectively prevent Web attacks and are helpless for HTTPS attacks.

WAF is the most effective product for Web application protection. The two key functions of Web application firewall are to gain an in-depth understanding of HTTP/HTTPS protocol, monitor round-trip traffic, and control web traffic security. Web data centers are constantly changing, including new applications, new software modules, and constantly updated software patches. Professional security tools and methods should be able to adapt to this dynamic environment. Application configuration upgrades and updates and monitoring data analysis make the Application Firewall always meet new security requirements.

At the same time, enterprises have major requirements for Web Application Security protection, such as ease of deployment, centralized management, simple operations, and minimal impact on performance. Including:

Minimize the impact on the existing network topology;

Convenient management without complicated configuration;

The access speed of existing WEB servers cannot be greatly affected;

Normal service access cannot be intercepted incorrectly.

The content of Web security has been introduced to you. I hope you can learn more about it.