The Manager's Guide to Web Application Security: A Concise Guide to the Weaker Side of the Web

About this book

The Managers Guide to Web Application Security is a concise information-packed guide to application security risks every organization faces written in plain language with guidance on how to deal with those issues quickly and effectively. Often security vulnerabilities are difficult to understand and quantify because they are the result of intricate programming deficiencies and highly technical issues. Author and noted industry expert Ron Lepofsky breaks down the technical barrier and identifies many real-world examples of security vulnerabilities commonly found by IT security auditors translates them into business risks with identifiable consequences and provides practical guidance about mitigating them. The Managers Guide to Web Application Security describes how to fix and prevent these vulnerabilities in easy-to-understand discussions of vulnerability classes and their remediation. For easy reference the information is also presented schematically in Excel spreadsheets available to readers for free download from the publishers digital annex. The book is current concise and to the pointwhich is to help managers cut through the technical jargon and make the business decisions required to find fix and prevent serious vulnerabilities.