“Nearly every news program, talk show and print media headline
now has a security angle. If you are an IT Manager or Executive,
you are probably pulling your hair out trying to secure your
Information Technology systems…especially web applications. You
think about firewalls. You think about hackers and terrorists. You
think about your revenues if someone breaks your web based ordering
system. So, while everybody talks about what to do… who really is
doing something? Look to the people on the Open Web Application
Security Project for many of the answers to these solutions.“The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a group of
devoted volunteers that are hard at work developing platform
independent tools, techniques and processes that enhance web
applications. They are building a very comprehensive resource
regarding security information and ways to manage potential
security threats on web based systems.“Mark Curphey is the founder of the Open Web Application
Security Project–a project he has been working on for a few years
now…”
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