The Manager's Guide to Web Application Security: A Concise Guide to the Weaker Side of the Web

The Manager's Guide to Web Application Security is a concise, information-packed guide to application security risks every organization faces, written in plain language, with guidance on how to deal with those issues quickly and effectively. Often, security vulnerabilities are difficult to understand and quantify because they are the result of intricate programming deficiencies and highly technical issues. Author and noted industry expert Ron Lepofsky breaks down the technical barrier and identifies many real-world examples of security vulnerabilities commonly found by IT security auditors, translates them into business risks with identifiable consequences, and provides practical guidance about mitigating them.

The Manager's Guide to Web Application Security describes how to fix and prevent these vulnerabilities in easy-to-understand discussions of vulnerability classes and their remediation. For easy reference, the information is also presented schematically in Excel spreadsheets available to readers for free download from the publisher’s digital annex. The book is current, concise, and to the point—which is to help managers cut through the technical jargon and make the business decisions required to find, fix, and prevent serious vulnerabilities.

What you’ll learn

• Executives: Quickly comprehend what the application security team is saying in terms of risk and remediation
• Security experts: Understand how to express threats in terms of business risk to executives
• Details about currently relevant vulnerabilities, by vulnerability class and risk level
• Decision criteria for what type of security audit is required for your environment
• Downloadable information tables, examples, and reusable forms
• Information about standards compliance, including appendices that detail relevant standards, such as COBIT5 IT Security, Experian EI3PA Security Audit Standard, and PCI DSS

Who this book is for

The Manager's Guide to Web Application Security is written for senior executives who have to make business decisions about managing the risk of web applications.

About the Author

Ron Lepofsky is the president of ERE Information Security Auditors, which he founded in 2000. He holds the CISSP and CISM security certifications and a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto. He has extensive experience managing the web application security audit process, advising senior management on remediating security weaknesses, and translating the technical findings of his auditor teams into actionable terms for management.