Securing Ajax Applications: Ensuring the Safety of the Dynamic Web - Softcover

Wells, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596529317 ISBN 13: 9780596529314

Publisher: O'Reilly Vlg. GmbH & Co., 2007

Synopsis

Ajax applications should be open yet secure. Far too often security is added as an afterthought. Potential flaws need to be identified and addressed right away. This book explores Ajax and web application security with an eye for dangerous gaps and offers ways that you can plug them before they become a problem. By making security part of the process from the start, you will learn how to build secure Ajax applications and discover how to respond quickly when attacks occur.

Securing Ajax Applications succinctly explains that the same back-and-forth communications that make Ajax so responsive also gives invaders new opportunities to gather data, make creative new requests of your server, and interfere with the communications between you and your customers. This book presents basic security techniques and examines vulnerabilities with JavaScript, XML, JSON, Flash, and other technologies -- vital information that will ultimately save you time and money.

Topics include:

• An overview of the evolving web platform, including APIs, feeds, web services and asynchronous messaging
• Web security basics, including common vulnerabilities, common cures, state management and session management
• How to secure web technologies, such as Ajax, JavaScript, Java applets, Active X controls, plug-ins, Flash and Flex
• How to protect your server, including front-line defense, dealing with application servers, PHP and scripting
• Vulnerabilities among web standards such as HTTP, XML, JSON, RSS, ATOM, REST, and XDOS
• How to secure web services, build secure APIs, and make open mashups secure

Securing Ajax Applications takes on the challenges created by this new generation of web development, and demonstrates why web security isn't just for administrators and back-end programmers any more. It's also for web developers who accept the responsibility that comes with using the new wonders of the Web.

About this title

About the Author

Christopher Wells has deployed security solutions for major healthcare, telecommunication, and financial industries, and is currently employed as an Information Security Consultant for a major financial institution. He is an accomplished applications security architect with over 10 years of application security experience. Christopher holds multiple security certifications including a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP), and holds a Bachelor degree from the University of Minnesota.

Synopsis

Describes how to build secure Ajax applications and how to prevent and respond to a security attack.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Vlg. GmbH & Co.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0596529317
• ISBN 13: 9780596529314
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 233