Web Application Security: Too Costly to Ignore

This paper details why application security addressed throughout the entire software development life cycle will increase the security of the applications, improve regulatory compliance, while also cutting development costs. The bad news keeps rolling in nearly every day. A major retailer's website is hacked, and thousands of customer records, including credit card numbers, are stolen; a single flaw on the web page of a federal agency has leaked Social Security numbers onto the Internet. It is clear that attacks targeting web applications are on the rise, as stories like these are all too commonplace.