Special Edition Using SOAP

Security Issues for Web-Based Applications

You might feel good about your company’s security measures, but it’s important to ask if that security has a firm foundation. A recent Computer Security Institute (CSI) study conducted with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) states that computer crime losses are on the rise and security problems are to blame for many of those losses (http://www.gocsi.com/prelea_000321.htm). Current losses topped $371 million; a 41% increase over the previous CSI report. In addition, $151 million of that loss was due to theft of proprietary information—the kind of information that a Web-based application might exchange with a server of the Internet. Actual losses are probably higher than what I’m telling you in ...