Application Security Challenges
The challenges associated with application security not just depend on the measures taken during the application development phase, but also demands on the approaches conducted by organizations to handle application security. Following are some of the prime application security challenges organizations face:
- Injection Vulnerabilities: The biggest and most common challenge in application security is the injection attacks. There are two common injection types, namely SQL injections and remote command execution (RCE). The SQL injections involve adding a SQL query in the application, eventually letting hackers get access to database sensitive data and even modify data or do other activities. While in the case of RCE, hackers can add their code to implement arbitrary commands.
- Relying on Popular Language Libraries: Most of the time, developers use popular languages like JavaScript, to quickly develop application frameworks. They imagine that a popular library must be possessing more security as lots of developers are using it. In reality, such frameworks might be depending on other dependencies, which makes the application vulnerable to threats.
- Increased Application Development Speed: The way applications are developing and the global competition in this perspective, developers are pushed to work at high speed. This often causes loopholes in security measures that remain unattended due to time shortage.
- API Threats: Most of the applications extract data from different services and use APIs for interaction. Organizations easily give access to their data without even considering the security measures of the APIs. The common API threats include protocol attacks, injections, bot attacks, invalidated redirects, and a few others.
These are just a few common application security challenges, but there are many other challenges that can get the attention of attackers.