1 On web application security
This chapter covers
- Learning why web application security is important
- Using ASP.NET Core to create web applications and APIs
- Identifying why certain parts of an application are at risk
- Exploring what to expect from this book
Nine out of ten web applications have security vulnerabilities. This is the rather frightening conclusion of a study released in 2020 by Positive Technologies (http://mng.bz/mOj2), a provider of various security solutions. Obviously, such studies can often be biased toward the business model of those who conduct them, but several other studies from previous years yielded similar outcomes. Here’s a report about one study from as far back as 2009: http://mng.bz/5Qo1.
The authors of the study ...
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