First Line of Defense for Web Applications – Part 1 (Input Validation)

There are lots of security principles which one should be aware of while developing software but at the heart of any secure application, there should be a first line of defense – and the mother of all defenses is: Input Validation!

There is so much buzz around for how hackers hack and what offensive techniques do they use to break in, but at the core it is the mitigation strategy which matters to me and many of my customers. Lack of input validation is one of the _core_ vulnerabilities for almost all web attacks.

If we can get this thing right, we can save lot of $(s) down the road. This series of blogs will talk in detail about Input validation strategies for web applications. We will also take a look at some interesting top Validation bloopers.