Tag Archives: information
Getting Business Value from Application Development: Evaluating trends
The first quarter is the perfect time to hone your plan for the entire year. Invest some time to: Evaluate trends Identify priorities Determine staffing Understanding the factors driving your business and operations empowers you to make better decisions that will positively affect your bottom line. Here are some of the factors driving software development [...]
Have You Discovered Windows Azure Marketplace?
For almost a year now Microsoft has been providing a facility for posting and accessing datasets which can be used in applications for analyzing data in real time, discovering trends and developing business intelligence. The Windows Azure Marketplace is a cloud based service that is changing the way information and applications are distributed. It creates [...]
Is Your Web Site or App Secure? Preventing Insecure Cryptographic Storage
Within most web applications there is a need to store sensitive data such as passwords, credit cards, account records and other confidential information by encryption in files or databases. Even though encryption is no longer difficult to implement, yet often developers make mistakes concerning what items are encrypted and in how encryption is applied in [...]
Is Your Web Site or App Secure? Avoiding Security Misconfiguration
Misconfiguration attacks seek to exploit possible vulnerabilities in the underlying software components in a web page or application. These could target: web servers app platforms databases networks or frameworks A break down in any of these areas could result in unauthorized access to a system or possibility a complete system compromise. While the exploits that [...]
IPv6 and .Net
As we finish up our series on IPv6 we look at how .Net applications are effected by IPv6. This specifically deals with applications which are using Microsoft’s Winsock. These will have to be modified to handle both IPv4 and IPv6. Applications which run under Windows XP with Service Pack 1 will need to implement two [...]
Is Your Web Site or App Secure? Preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is an attack that attempts to get a user to perform adverse actions on a site that he or she is currently logged in which lacks transactions processing. Once a user is authenticated on a site there is no way for it to distinguish between legitimate requests from malicious ones. Such [...]
