Despite all of our investments in security tools, the codebase can be the weakest link for any organization’s cybersecurity. Sanitizing and validating inputs is usually the first layer of defense.<\/p>\n
Attackers have been using classic flaws for years with a pretty high success rate. While advanced threat actors have more sophisticated approaches such as adversarial machine learning, advanced obfuscation<\/a>, and zero-day exploits<\/a>, classic attack techniques such as SQL injection<\/a>, cross-site scripting (XSS<\/a>), remote file inclusion (RFI<\/a>) and directory traversal<\/a> are still the most common attacks.<\/p>\n These techniques are often the first step on the way to privilege escalation and lateral movements. That’s why developers must sanitize and validate data correctly before processing transactions or saving any entry in a database.<\/p>\n Here we’ll focus on sanitizing and validating inputs, but other elements such as a server’s configurations must also be taken into account to properly secure forms.<\/p>\n See the Top Web Application Firewall (WAF) Solutions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Table of Contents<\/p>\n