Application Security: A Broader Perspective by Hardik Shah

Modern application come with many challenges, and security is indeed critical and often under-emphasized. Apps are the most favorable medium for cybercriminals who seek to steal the data, or breach user’s security defenses. As per research from cybersecurity, there were over 3,800 publicly disclosed data breaches, exposing 4.1 billion compromised records. There’s a vast amount of data stored in applications. With a considerable number of transactions taking place on applications, comprehensive app security is a must. In this blog post, you will learn: What is application security? What is the importance of application security? Classes of threats Application Security Checklist Security Testing Approaches Application Security Tools What is application security? Application security, or “AppSec,” is the process of making apps more secure by finding, fixing, and enhancing the security of applications. In application security, the process of checking the security of confidential data from being exposed to unauthorized individuals is....