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What security measures are considered when designing a web-application (besides the SSL encryption)? And what technologies are used to protect the application from brute-force, phishing, and pharming attacks."

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ASKED: June 24, 2008  7:30 AM
UPDATED: June 25, 2008  1:57 PM

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You need to protect yourself against SQL Injection attacks. If you are worried about someone brute forcing a password, setup a method within the database so that when a user types in a password wrong a counter is ticked. When the values of the counter reaches a number you decide (5, 10, etc) the account is disabled until the person contacts the Customer Service / Help Desk department. Phishing there isn't anything you can do about as that is when someone puts up a page that looks like yours on another web site and tries to get people to go to that site. The only defense here is customer education. Other things to think about are firewalls, DDoS protection, etc.
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Here are some articles I’ve written for TechTarget that should help you get started:

The Essentials of Web Application Threat Modeling

Writing software requirements that address security issues


The Fallacy of SSL

Web application vulnerabilities you don’t want to overlook

Web application security testing checklist

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http://principlelogic.com/applications.html
http://principlelogic.com/databases.html

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