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To “Open Source” or “Not to Open Source” 18 Jul 2012 | 12:00 am
In the IT World, the strategy “To Open Source or Not to Open Source” is a perennial debate. While traveling last year, I came across many large Global Financial Institutions who are adopting Open Sour...
Denial of Service by Regular Expressions – ReDOS! 10 Jul 2012 | 08:09 am
From our friends at Net-Square solutions: A Regular Expression or “regex” is heavily used in pattern matching. Applications use regular expressions to verify inputs of all sorts – dates, zip codes, e...
Microsoft Reveals Four Windows Server 2012 Editions 7 Jul 2012 | 01:20 am
There are more details in on Windows Server 2012. This week Microsoft announced the four versions of its much reduced server platform lineup. The editions now consists of Datacenter, Standard, and ...
6 Useful IIS Resources 3 Jul 2012 | 12:26 am
As developers of Microsoft IIS performance and security tools, we frequently seek out resources dedicated to IIS. Sure, the Web is full of blogs, articles, and forums touching on IIS, but finding the ...
Building Secure Web Applications (Infographic) 14 Jun 2012 | 07:52 am
Often times Web app firewalls are deployed as a corrective action for flaws in software that could have been avoided with better development practices. Veracode has put together an infographic of som...
How to Use a Web Application Firewall (The Right Way) 9 May 2012 | 11:01 am
The Perceptions of Web Application Firewalls Difficult to configure. Confusing to use. Time-consuming to manage. Set-it-and-forget-it security. These are some of the perceptions of Web application fi...
This Week in Security and Performance – Week 15 14 Apr 2012 | 06:37 am
Utah Medicaid Data Breach On March 30, Utah’s Medicaid health services was breached by a hacker based in Eastern Europe who stole up to 780,000 medical files – up to 280,096 of which contained social...
Spotting Unseen and Potentially Harmful Traffic 3 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am
Startling Finds Don’t think your site is receiving harmful traffic? Incapsula recently put together a report about website traffic and its legitimacy, harmfulness, and humanness. The information co...
IIS 8: New Security and Performance Features 1 Apr 2012 | 09:11 pm
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Web Application Security Best Practices for Ecommerce Sites 21 Mar 2012 | 04:40 am
Last week, Port80′s Thomas Powell and Joe Lima presented a webinar on web app security for ecommerce sites. The webinar was focused on Magento’s ecommerce web apps and can be seen in full below. Enj...