scholarly journals Giải pháp đánh giá và quản lý rủi ro an toàn thông tin trong Chính phủ điện tử

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (13) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Phùng Văn Ổn ◽  
Lê Việt Hà ◽  
Nguyễn Ngọc Hóa
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Critical Systems ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Vulnerability Testing ◽  
Security Risk Assessment

Tóm tắt—Bài báo này trình bày kết quả nghiên cứu xây dựng giải pháp đánh giá và quản lý rủi ro an toàn hệ thống thông tin trong Chính phủ điện tử. Trong bài toán này, chúng tôi tập chung vào xây dựng (i) quy trình đánh giá, quản lý rủi ro an toàn thông tin (ATTT), và (ii) hệ thống phần mềm UET.SRA (Security Risk Assessment System)  hỗ trợ đánh giá, quản lý rủi ro theo quy trình đã xây dựng. Việc quản lý và đánh giá rủi ro ATTT được kết hợp theo các tiêu chuẩn trong nước và quốc tế bao gồm các quy trình trong ISO/IEC 27005:2011 và NIST SP 800-39, nhưng được tuỳ biến để phù hợp với thực tiễn của các cơ quan chính phủ. Hệ thống phần mềm UET.SRA đánh giá rủi ro ATTT dựa theo phương pháp kiểm tra các lỗ hổng và sự phơi nhiễm phổ biến (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures – CVE); việc ước lượng rủi ro định lượng theo Hệ thống chấm điểm lỗ hổng phổ biến (Common Vulnerability Scoring System - CVSS) và Dự án mở về bảo mật ứng dụng web (Open Web Application Security Project - OWASP). Ngoài ra, UET.SRA còn cung cấp chức năng phân tích, phát hiện các lỗ hổng, các đoạn mã độc trong mã nguồn ứng dụng Web sử dụng công nghệ học sâu (deep learning). Kết quả thử nghiệm giải pháp UET.SRA tại Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường (TN&MT) bước đầu đã minh chứng được ý nghĩa thực tiễn và cho phép quản lý được các rủi ro ATTT đối với một số hệ thống trọng yếu của Bộ TN&MT. Abstract—This article presents the results of building a solution to access and manage security risks for the e-Government information system. We focus on building a process and software system UET.SRA to manage and assess security risks. The process was developed using a combination of international and domestic standards including ISO/IEC 27005:2011 and NIST SP 800-39, but customized to match the practice of government agencies. UET.SRA evaluates security risks based on CVEs vulnerability testing; quantitative risk based on CVSS and OWASP standards. In addition, UET.SRA also provides the function of detecting vulnerabilities and webshell in the source code of web applications using deep learning algorithms. The experimental results of UET.SRA at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment have initially demonstrated practical effectiveness in managing security risks for a number of critical systems.

scholarly journals Cross Site Scripting Attacks in Web-Based Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Aliga Paul Aliga ◽  
Adetokunbo MacGregor John-Otumu ◽  
Rebecca E Imhanhahimi ◽  
Atuegbelo Confidence Akpe
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Architectural Framework ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Cross Site ◽  
The Web

Web-based applications has turn out to be very prevalent due to the ubiquity of web browsers to deliver service oriented application on-demand to diverse client over the Internet and cross site scripting (XSS) attack is a foremost security risk that has continuously ravage the web applications over the years. This paper critically examines the concept of XSS and some recent approaches for detecting and preventing XSS attacks in terms of architectural framework, algorithm used, solution location, and so on. The techniques were analysed and results showed that most of the available recognition and avoidance solutions to XSS attacks are more on the client end than the server end because of the peculiar nature of web application vulnerability and they also lack support for self-learning ability in order to detect new XSS attacks. Few researchers as cited in this paper inculcated the self-learning ability to detect and prevent XSS attacks in their design architecture using artificial neural networks and soft computing approach; a lot of improvement is still needed to effectively and efficiently handle the web application security menace as recommended.

An Alternative Threat Model-based Approach for Security Testing

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bouchaib Falah ◽  
Mohammed Akour ◽  
Samia Oukemeni
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Security Attacks ◽  
Security Testing ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Malicious Codes ◽  
Testing Approach ◽  
Interaction Web

In modern interaction, web applications has gained more and more popularity, which leads to a significate growth of exposure to malicious users and vulnerability attacks. This causes organizations and companies to lose valuable information and suffer from bad reputation. One of the effective mitigation practices is to perform security testing against the application before release it to the market. This solution won't protect web application 100% but it will test the application against malicious codes and reduce the high number of potential attacks on web application. One of known security testing approach is threat modeling, which provides an efficient technique to identify threats that can compromise system security. The authors proposed method, in this paper, focuses on improving the effectiveness of the categorization of threats by using Open 10 Web Application Security Project's (OWASP) that are the most critical web application security risks in generating threat trees in order to cover widely known security attacks.

An Alternative Threat Model-Based Approach for Security Testing

2018 ◽  
pp. 441-454
Author(s):  
Bouchaib Falah ◽  
Mohammed Akour ◽  
Samia Oukemeni
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Security Testing ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Threat Model ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Malicious Codes ◽  
Testing Approach ◽  
Interaction Web

In modern interaction, web applications has gained more and more popularity, which leads to a significate growth of exposure to malicious users and vulnerability attacks. This causes organizations and companies to lose valuable information and suffer from bad reputation. One of the effective mitigation practices is to perform security testing against the application before release it to the market. This solution won't protect web application 100% but it will test the application against malicious codes and reduce the high number of potential attacks on web application. One of known security testing approach is threat modeling, which provides an efficient technique to identify threats that can compromise system security. The authors proposed method, in this paper, focuses on improving the effectiveness of the categorization of threats by using Open 10 Web Application Security Project's (OWASP) that are the most critical web application security risks in generating threat trees in order to cover widely known security attacks.

scholarly journals USE OF “OWASP TOP 10” IN WEB APPLICATION SECURITY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikola Nedeljković ◽  
◽  
Natalija Vugdelija ◽  
Nenad Kojić ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Risk Awareness ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Security Vulnerabilities ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Increased Risk

Web application security vulnerabilities can lead to various attacks on users, some of which can have major consequences. It is important to point out the weaknesses that allow abuse, because often increased risk awareness is the first step in protecting web applications. Some of the most critical security risks that organizations face today have been analyzed and uncovered using OWASP Top 10. This paper presents concrete examples of attacks and abuse of web applications. Through the implementation and analysis of attacks on web applications, weaknesses that need to be eliminated in order to protect against potential new attacks are identified. Especially, suggestions to help protect web applications from each type of attack listed and described are provided.

scholarly journals Preventive Measures for Cross Site Request Forgery Attacks on Web-based Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.15) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Emil Semastin ◽  
Sami Azam ◽  
Bharanidharan Shanmugam ◽  
Krishnan Kannoorpatti ◽  
Mirjam Jonokman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Operating Cycle ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Business World ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Server Side ◽  
Combined Solution ◽  
Cross Site Request Forgery

Today’s contemporary business world has incorporated Web Services and Web Applications in its core of operating cycle nowadays and security plays a major role in the amalgamation of such services and applications with the business needs worldwide. OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) states that the effectiveness of security mechanisms in a Web Application can be estimated by evaluating the degree of vulnerability against any of the nominated top ten vulnerabilities, nominated by the OWASP. This paper sheds light on a number of existing tools that can be used to test for the CSRF vulnerability. The main objective of the research is to identify the available solutions to prevent CSRF attacks. By analyzing the techniques employed in each of the solutions, the optimal tool can be identified. Tests against the exploitation of the vulnerabilities were conducted after implementing the solutions into the web application to check the efficacy of each of the solutions. The research also proposes a combined solution that integrates the passing of an unpredictable token through a hidden field and validating it on the server side with the passing of token through URL.  

DATABASE PROTECTION BASED ON WEB APPLICATION FIREWALL

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 84-90
Author(s):  
Rustam Kh. Khamdamov ◽  
◽  
Komil F. Kerimov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Database Security ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Client Request ◽  
Database Protection ◽  
Information Bank

Web applications are increasingly being used in activities such as reading news, paying bills, and shopping online. As these services grow, you can see an increase in the number and extent of attacks on them, such as: theft of personal information, bank data and other cases of cybercrime. All of the above is a consequence of the openness of information in the database. Web application security is highly dependent on database security. Client request data is usually retrieved by a set of requests that request the application user. If the data entered by the user is not scanned very carefully, you can collect a whole host of types of attacks that use web applications to create security threats to the database. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, web application programmers usually focus on the functionality of web applications, but only few worry about security. This article provides methods for detecting anomalies using a database firewall. The methods of penetration and types of hacks are investigated. A database firewall is proposed that can block known and unknown attacks on Web applications. This software can work in various ways depending on the configuration. There are almost no false positives, and the overhead of performance is relatively small. The developed database firewall is designed to protect against attacks on web application databases. It works as a proxy, which means that requests for SQL expressions received from the client will first be sent to the developed firewall, rather than to the database server itself. The firewall analyzes the request: requests that are considered strange are blocked by the firewall and an empty result is returned to the client.

scholarly journals Developing Web-Application’s Automated Testing Technique

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
A. V. Tkachev ◽  
D. V. Irtegov
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Automated Testing ◽  
Automatic Assessment ◽  
Testing Technique ◽  
Code Coverage ◽  
Client Side ◽  
User Actions

The article is devoted to the technique of automated testing of NSUts – automatic assessment system for programming tasks developed at NSU. The main priority for this technique is to test both the old and the new versions of the application, so that the same or minimally modified tests could be executed on two versions of the system with different architectures. This could be useful while organizing the development process for other applications with a long life cycle. To test not only the server but also the client side of the web application, we suggest using tools like Selenium WebDriver to simulate user actions by sending commands to real browsers. We use the well-known Page Object design pattern to handle differences in HTML layout and functionality, and describe a number of ways to make developed tests less fragile and easily adapt those to work with the new version of the system. The article also describes the use of this technique to organize automated testing of the NSUts system and analyzes its effectiveness. The analysis shows that the estimated code coverage by these tests is quite high, and therefore the technique can be considered effective and applied to other similar web applications.

scholarly journals Secure ASP.NET Web Application by Discovering Broken Authentication and Session Management Vulnerabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-363
Author(s):  
Rupal Sharma ◽  
Ravi Sheth
Keyword(s):  
Web Service ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
The Other ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Security Vulnerability ◽  
Session Management ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Web

Today, web application security is most significant battlefield between victim, attacker and resource of web service. The owner of web applications can’t see security vulnerability in web application which develops in ASP.NET. This paper explain one algorithm which aim to identify broken authentication and session management vulnerability. The given method of this paper scan the web application files. The created scanner generator relies on studying the source character of the application limited ASP.NET files and the code be beholden files. A program develop for this motive is to bring about a report which describes vulnerabilities types by mentioning the indict name, disclose description and its location. The aim of the paper is to discover the broken authentication and session management vulnerabilities. The indicated algorithm will uphold organization and developer to repair the vulnerabilities and recover from one end to the other security.

AUTOMATED VULNERABILITY SEARCH IN A WEB APPLICATION BASED ON REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
OLGA N. VYBORNOVA ◽  
◽  
ALEKSANDER N. RYZHIKOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Vulnerability Scanner ◽  
Learning Agent ◽  
Markov Decision ◽  
Python Programming

We analyzed the urgency of the task of creating a more efficient (compared to analogues) means of automated vulnerability search based on modern technologies. We have shown the similarity of the vulnerabilities identifying process with the Markov decision-making process and justified the feasibility of using reinforcement learning technology for solving this problem. Since the analysis of the web application security is currently the highest priority and in demand, within the framework of this work, the application of the mathematical apparatus of reinforcement learning with to this subject area is considered. The mathematical model is presented, the specifics of the training and testing processes for the problem of automated vulnerability search in web applications are described. Based on an analysis of the OWASP Testing Guide, an action space and a set of environment states are identified. The characteristics of the software implementation of the proposed model are described: Q-learning is implemented in the Python programming language; a neural network was created to implement the learning policy using the tensorflow library. We demonstrated the results of the Reinforcement Learning agent on a real web application, as well as their comparison with the report of the Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner. The findings indicate that the proposed solution is promising.

An Approach for Intentional Modeling of Web Services Security Risk Assessment

2007 ◽  
pp. 363-379
Author(s):  
Subhas C. Misra ◽  
Vinod Kumar ◽  
Uma Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Security System ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Web Services Security ◽  
Security Risk Assessment

In this chapter, we provide a conceptual modeling approach for Web services security risk assessment that is based on the identification and analysis of stakeholder intentions. There are no similar approaches for modeling Web services security risk assessment in the existing pieces of literature. The approach is, thus, novel in this domain. The approach is helpful for performing means-end analysis, thereby, uncovering the structural origin of security risks in WS, and how the root-causes of such risks can be controlled from the early stages of the projects. The approach addresses “why” the process is the way it is by exploring the strategic dependencies between the actors of a security system, and analyzing the motivations, intents, and rationales behind the different entities and activities in constituting the system.

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