High Risk: Ebusiness Applications Show Serious Security Flaws

Application security is "in a grim state", according to new research. Almost half of application security vulnerabilities are readily exploitable through entirely preventable defects. The typical ebusiness application is at serious risk of compromise because of security flaws introduced early in . . . Application security is "in a grim state", according to new research. Almost half of application security vulnerabilities are readily exploitable through entirely preventable defects. The typical ebusiness application is at serious risk of compromise because of security flaws introduced early in the design cycle, but these risks could easily be reduced by as much as 80 per cent, according to security firm @stake.

While analysing 45 popular ebusiness applications, @stake found a "grim" level of security and noted that not all applications are created equal.

The research found that "the best designed applications have one quarter as many security defects as the worst. As a result, these applications carry 80 per cent less business-adjusted risk than the least secure."

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