April 2002
Beginner to intermediate
1128 pages
26h 33m
English
Security is an essential aspect of most, if not all, enterprise applications. However, defining an application as secure is not as easy as it sounds, because the definition of secure can be interpreted in different ways.
To some users, a Web site is secure if they have to provide a username and password to obtain access to the Web pages. As you will see, just because a site requires a user to login does not make it secure.
Security has many aspects that can be categorized into the following areas:
Authentication
Authorization
Confidentiality
Integrity
Non-repudiation
Auditing
Each of these categories is discussed in this section.
Authentication means identifying a client as a valid user of the ...
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