Threat Detection and Mitigation
The number of threats we need to deal with in an application is quite huge and OWASP, as mentioned before, helps us with that. There are many common attacks that an application will need to handle and not only the protection of its network, data, entrance, and dependencies will be enough to deal with these attacks.
Threats
The most difficult point of this scenario is detecting a threat on the fly while an application is running. But to detect them, we need to understand basically what they are, so let’s check out, in the following topics, some of the common attacks.
Event Injection
When an attacker manipulates input data to execute unauthorized actions within an application, leading to data breaches, service disruptions, or unauthorized access, we are under an event injection attack.
There are several strategies of mitigation, which include validating and sanitizing the input, guaranteeing strict input data; using strong...
