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Web application security is an essential component of any successful project, whether open source PHP applications, web services such as straight through processing, or proprietary business web sites. Hosters (rightly) shun insecure code, and users shun insecure services that lead to fraud. The aim of this Development Guide is to allow businesses, developers, designers and solution architects to produce secure web applications. If done from the earliest stages, secure applications cost about the same to develop as insecure applications, but are far more cost effective in the long run. Unlike other forms of security (such as firewalls and secure lockdowns), web applications have the ability to make a skilled attacker rich, or make the life of a victim a complete misery. At this highest level of the OSI software map, traditional firewalls and other controls simply do not help. The application itself must be self-defending. The Development Guide can help you get there. The Development Guide has been written to cover all forms of web application security issues, from old hoary chestnuts such as SQL Injection, through modern concerns such as AJAX, phishing, credit card handling, session fixation, cross-site request forgeries, compliance, and privacy issues.

Web application security is an essential component of any successful project, whether open source PHP applications, web services such as straight through processing, or proprietary business web sites. Hosters (rightly) shun insecure code, and users shun insecure services that lead to fraud. The aim of this Development Guide is to allow businesses, developers, designers and solution architects to produce secure web applications. If done from the earliest stages, secure applications cost about the same to develop as insecure applications, but are far more cost effective in the long run.

Unlike other forms of security (such as firewalls and secure lockdowns), web applications have the ability to make a skilled attacker rich, or make the life of a victim a complete misery. At this highest level of the OSI software map, traditional firewalls and other controls simply do not help. The application itself must be self-defending. The Development Guide can help you get there. The Development Guide has been written to cover all forms of web application security issues, from old hoary chestnuts such as SQL Injection, through modern concerns such as AJAX, phishing, credit card handling, session fixation, cross-site request forgeries, compliance, and privacy issues.


Let's talk here Development Guide Communities Further development of the Development Guide occurs through mailing list discussions and occasional workshops, and suggestions for improvement are welcome. For more information, please contact us. mailing list (this is the main list)	Got Cycles? Work has begun on the next version of the Development Guide! Read all about it, here Contributor Onboarding Instructions (PDF) Got Translation Cycles? The Development Guide project is always on the lookout for volunteers who are interested in translating the Development Guide into another language. Translation Onboarding Instructions (Currently under development!)	Related resources OWASP Resources OWASP ASVS OWASP Top Ten OWASP Legal Project OWASP ESAPI OWASP Common Numbering

Let's talk here

Development Guide Communities

Further development of the Development Guide occurs through mailing list discussions and occasional workshops, and suggestions for improvement are welcome. For more information, please contact us.