Open AccessEnhancement of Web Security Against External Attack
Author(s) -
Md. Fazlul Haque,
Mohammad Badrul Alam Miah,
Fuyad Al Masud
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
european scientific journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1857-7881
pISSN - 1857-7431
DOI - 10.19044/esj.2017.v13n15p228
Subject(s) - web application security , cross site scripting , computer security , computer science , web service , world wide web , web development , sql injection , security service , internet privacy , information security , query by example , web search query , search engine
The security of web-based services is currently playing a vital role for the software industry. In recent years, many technologies and standards have emerged in order to handle the security issues related to web services. This paper shows techniques to enhance the security of web services, and some of the recent challenges and recommendations of a proposed model to secure web services. It shows the security process of a real life web application, which includes; HTML5 forms, login security, and a single signon solution. This paper also aim to discuss the ten (10) most common web security vulnerabilities and how to prevent the web application from three (3) of the vulnerabilities. Amongst them are; SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting and Broken Authentication, and Session Management.