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Securing Ajax Applications: Ensuring the Safety of the Dynamic Web
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Type.................: Ebook
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Ajax applications should be open yet secure. Far too often security is added as
an afterthought. Potential flaws need to be identified and addressed right away.
This book explores Ajax and web application security with an eye for dangerous
gaps and offers ways that you can plug them before they become a problem. Learn
how to build secure Ajax applications and discover how to respond quickly when
attacks occur.
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Ajax applications should be open yet secure. Far too often security is added as
an afterthought. Potential flaws need to be identified and addressed right away.
This book explores Ajax and web application security with an eye for dangerous
gaps and offers ways that you can plug them before they become a problem. By
making security part of the process from the start, you will learn how to build
secure Ajax applications and discover how to respond quickly when attacks occur.

Securing Ajax Applications succinctly explains that the same back-and-forth
communications that make Ajax so responsive also gives invaders new
opportunities to gather data, make creative new requests of your server, and
interfere with the communications between you and your customers. This book
presents basic security techniques and examines vulnerabilities with JavaScript,
XML, JSON, Flash, and other technologies -- vital information that will
ultimately save you time and money.

Topics include:

* An overview of the evolving web platform, including APIs, feeds, web
services and asynchronous messaging
* Web security basics, including common vulnerabilities, common cures, state
management and session management
* How to secure web technologies, such as Ajax, JavaScript, Java applets,
Active X controls, plug-ins, Flash and Flex
* How to protect your server, including front-line defense, dealing with
application servers, PHP and scripting
* Vulnerabilities among web standards such as HTTP, XML, JSON, RSS, ATOM,
REST, and XDOS
* How to secure web services, build secure APIs, and make open mashups
secure

Securing Ajax Applications takes on the challenges created by this new
generation of web development, and demonstrates why web security isn't just for
administrators and back-end programmers any more. It's also for web developers
who accept the responsibility that comes with using the new wonders of the Web.

Table of Contents
Preface ix
The Evolving Web 1
The Rise of the Web 2
Web Security 29
Security Basics 29
Risk Analysis 37
Common Web Application Vulnerabilities 40
Securing Web Technologies 56
How Web Sites Communicate 56
Browser Security 61
Browser Plug-ins, Extensions, and Add-ons 76
Protecting the Server 99
Network Security 100
Host Security 103
Web Server Hardening 121
Application Server Hardening 128
A Weak Foundation 130
HTTP Vulnerabilities 131
The Threats 136
JSON 143
XML 146
RSS 148
Atom 149
REST 152
Securing Web Services 155
Web Services Overview 156
Security and Web Services 167
Web Service Security 172
Building Secure APIs 174
Building Your Own APIs 174
Preconditions 179
Postconditions 180
Invariants 180
Security Concerns 181
RESTful Web Services 183
Mashups 190
Web Applications and Open Internet APIs 191
Wild Web 2.0 192
Mashups and Security 194
Open Versus Secure 198
A Security Blanket 199
Case Studies 201
Index 213

Product Details

* ISBN: 0596529317
* ISBN-13: 9780596529314
* Format: Paperback, 233pp
* Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
* Pub. Date: July 2007

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