ABSTRACT
Many of the critical infrastructures and commercial targets for cyber security attacks were once targets of the Allied strategic bombing campaign during the Second World War. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an open source project set up to produce freely available guidelines and other documentation of current cyber security vulnerabilities. Vulnerable components, such as libraries, frameworks, and other software modules almost always run with full privilege. Applications using these vulnerable components may undermine their defenses and enable a range of possible attacks and impacts. Keeping external parties and malware off your network by using Firewalls, anti-virus and other tools is only half the struggle. Cyber communications crises affecting one or more of these sectors at national/transnational level could also have very serious cascading effects for many other sectors and this is what makes cyber security resilience a matter of strategic importance.
