▶ 15.5 Ensuring Web Security Properties
Here we examine the challenge of achieving the CIA properties on websites. We examine confidentiality and integrity here. A separate section discusses availability and a final section examines web privacy.
Web Confidentiality
Web services face a range of confidentiality problems and related security objectives. Although many web servers offer their contents to any and all potential visitors, some try to restrict access. Any site that collects confidential information from visitors is obliged to protect that information. We examine these cases here.
Serve Confidential Data
Most sites address this problem by identifying trustworthy users. If the user is authorized to retrieve the information, ...
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