CODE EXCEPTIONS

Whether you're a business owner looking to create a new web app, or you’re already a savvy developer and you want to be as educated as possible as to how to optimize your web apps to be competitive, useful, but most of all, safe, the need to balance utility with security is crucial in web applications.

Fortunately, we’ve rounded up the best tips and advice for web application developers on ensuring their apps have maximum security. The cost of a single data breach averages $5.5 million, or about $194 per customer record. That’s a lot of cash an enterprise can lose with a single attack.

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The more secure you can make your web applications, the better you’ll look in the eyes of enterprises who need the tightest security to protect their employees, company data and customer records. Among the ten most common application security risks are cross-site scripting (XSS), failure to restrict url access, invalidated redirects and forwards and more – many of which are inside your control as the developer. Check out the infographic below for more details on web application security, as well as a 16-step checklist for ensuring the security of your apps.

This infographic was developed by Veracode, providers of the world's leading Application Risk Management Platform. Find out more about linux hacking tools from Vercode.com.