Various solutions to web application security
10.1.2006 / Security /
Was doodling around on my Tablet, and drew a map of the space of solutions for web application security. (Also, see my list of research papers on the topic).

Was doodling around on my Tablet, and drew a map of the space of solutions for web application security. (Also, see my list of research papers on the topic).

19.1.2006 at 5:24 pm
[…] I’m going to give a talk about web application security in a seminar class held by my advisor Prof. Michael Franz later this afternoon. This blog post is supposed to be the accompanying “see here for more” link for the talk. Here are a few resources and pointers to go look at if you want to dive deeper into some of the topics I’m going to talk about.The OWASP page is a great resource for web app security in general. It’s the home of the top ten web vulnerabilities, as well as WebGoat and WebScarab.I maintain a list of research papers on the topic of web application security, with a strong tilt towards beating command injection attacks. There’s also a related doodle of the various proposed solutions. This area has gotten a lot of attention from CS researchers lately.Here at UCIrvine, we’ve done some work on hardening the JVM against attacks on web applications. I presented a paper on this at the last ACSAC. Here’s the paper (Taint Propagation for Java - PDF), and here are the slides for that talk (PDF).Finally, here are the slides of the talk. (PDF) […]