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The lead to make business process more efficient is leading them to expose more of their application through the use of new programming technique and technologies. These technologies are very much valuable and efficient for securing the organization application, database, and other relevant document. These Software packages are called Application Security System. It is the process which is used to protect the applications from the external threat. Security is most important concern during the development of any application because applications are more frequently accessible in the network and results the vulnerable to a wide variety of the threats. The action taken to ensure application security sometime known as countermeasures. The application firewall is a more basic software countermeasure which limits the execution of files by the specific installed programs. Routers are the most common hardware countermeasure which prevents the IP address of an individual computer for being directly visible on the internet. The other actions for ensuring application security are conventional firewall, encryption/decryption program, antivirus programs, spyware detection/removal programs, etc. The updates on the latest threats which impair web based application are Open Web Application Security Project and Web Application Security Consortium. Principles of application security:- •With the help of appropriate coding, this is quite near to provide security as much as possible. •Following the Software Development Life Cycle system. •System should be able to securing networks, databases, servers, and the application itself. For improving Web application security book according to the pattern and practice, there is a principle-based approach for application security includes the following:- •Firstly knowing your threats. •Secondly securing the network host and applications. •Third and last incorporating security in to your software development process For the most part, the container provides the implementation of the security infrastructure. Application security provides this insulation in that way by which we can enhances the portability of applications by allowing them to be deployed in diverse security environments with some additional coding. The mechanism which is used in an application and expressed in the deployment descriptor known as declarative security. The deployed system then uses specific Application Server tools to map the application requirements. In application security testing we first identifies the security flaws, secondly we developed the security tests based on the requirement and also test all the security mechanism and common vulnerabilities and finally flaws feed in to defect tracking and root cause analysis. By using the rigorously defining enterprise asset identifying and prioritizing potential threat and creating a security profile for each application we can enhance application security.
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