ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the specific types of cyberattacks that can affect a particular web application. Cyberattackers seem to be the most attracted to government and computer security types of web applications because they are simply high profile in nature. The second risk factor that must be taken into consideration is the kind of confidential information and data that reside in the database of a web application. Examples of this include Social Security numbers, credit card and banking numbers, and medical records/data. Obviously many security-related models are available that can be used to protect any type of web application that is hosted on a server, but the following are the most commonly used. Blacklisting is a security approach that makes the web application server accessible to virtually anybody in the business or corporation. The primary goal of a network intrusion detection system-based system is to prevent a malicious intrusion from occurring before it explodes into a large-scale cyberattack.
