Cloud Native Python

Application - security alternatives in the platform

As described earlier, every web application needs to be deployed on some kind of a platform before it can be exposed to the outside world. An application platform provides the protocol support application, which is needed to communicate over a network. TCP, and, to a large extent, HTTP, are all handled at the application level.

In the network stack of software architecture, there are two distinct layers, which include protocols ripe for web application attacks, in the application platform. These layers are as follows:

• Transport
• Application

Let's see these layers in detail.