Is SQL Injection a Terminable Offense?

SQL injection vulnerabilities are common out in the real world.

Outsourcing guides rarely address security: require secure coding training, put security reviews in contracts, and demand a penetration test plus code review with mitigation before release.

Pushes back on the claim that WAFs beat fixing vulnerable code: filters can be bypassed, need lengthy tuning, and have their own flaws, so WAFs belong in defense-in-depth, not code substitution.

According to Gartner, 75% of the attacks are coming though web applications and not through the network. This means greater emphasis needs to be placed on application security. However, this does not appear to be happening.

In system development a "backdoor" creates a way of bypassing normal authentication to allow access to a system.

Integrating security checks and balances with your application development processes is certainly uncharted territory for many security professionals.