Security News > 2023 > April > How to Secure Web Applications in a Growing Digital Attack Surface
External web applications can prove difficult to secure and are often targeted by hackers due to the range of vulnerabilities they may contain.
Organizations with business-critical web applications need to take effective measures of their digital attack surface, and pay close attention to these common security risks.
Security analysis of web applications showed that 83% of them had vulnerabilities associated with security misconfiguration.
The most common attack method is to send a link to a user of the targeted web application, appearing as if it has come from a legitimate source.
Wrapping Up. Hackers can exploit web applications in many ways, which put organization's data and infrastructure at risk.
PTaaS is often the most effective way to offer continuous application security and help identify vulnerabilities and determining the digital attack surface of web applications and related infrastructure.