Web Application Security Fundamentals

Description
This chapter introduces Web application security, explains common security terminology and presents a set of proven security principles upon which many of the recommendations throughout this guide are based. It presents an overview of the security process and explains why a holistic approach to security that covers multiple layers including the network, host and application, is required to achieve the goal of hack-resilient Web applications. This chapter also introduces and defines host configuration categories and application vulnerability categories, which are used throughout the remainder of this guide.

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