Security News > 2022 > December > Top 5 Web App Vulnerabilities and How to Find Them

Most startup CTOs have an excellent understanding of how to build highly functional SaaS businesses but need to gain more knowledge of how to secure the web application that underpins it.

According to recent research from Verizon, web application attacks are involved in 26% of all breaches, and app security is a concern for of enterprises.

4 - Broken authentication #. This is an umbrella term for weaknesses in session management and credential management, where attackers masquerade as a user and use hijacked session IDs or stolen login credentials to access user accounts and use their permissions to exploit web app vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability scanners are automated tests that identify vulnerabilities in your web applications and their underlying systems.

Authenticated web application scanning helps you find vulnerabilities that exist behind these login pages.

Web app security is a journey and can't be 'baked-in' retrospectively to your application just before release.

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