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Experts in Developing Secure Web Applications
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While the web has made the world smaller than what it already was, it has also made
it very vulnerable. Once you put yourself out in the public domain, you are accessible
to all the moral, ethical as well as immoral & unethical community.
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Consequently web security has become a very critical science. Unfortunately this
is one game, where you are always a step behind the hackers. |
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Most visitors to your site will look around, gather information and leave. But some
others will try to access areas you did not intend for public consumption. Yet some
others, not happy with just looking, will force themselves to crawl in areas not
even meant to be read. Consequently, suddenly your home page may contain garbage
or worse yet graffiti, thereby jeopardizing your very business.
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Microsoft has been making concerted efforts to curb the menace of breaking in the
security cordon. In order to inculcate the habit of developing secure application,
Microsoft organized a contest called ‘Security Shootout’.
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65,000 aspiring developers throughout the country took the challenge, and out of
these, 1000 cleared the first level, 100 reached the second level and only 10 made
it to the third level.
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We feel extremely happy to announce that 4 out of top 100 and 1 out of top ten were
MetaSys employees.
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This was possible because we have made ‘Security’ as a part of our SDLC cycle. The
web application development community strongly believes that the programmer leaves
bugs in the software which acts as vehicle for breaking in to the code. Keeping
that in mind, we included 29 (as of today) security practices items in our coding
standards. Every web application we develop must succumb to all those 29 items in
the list.
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One of the web applications we developed for a leading international banking products
company was audited by none other than Microsoft’s web security audit group. It
was certified to be 98.7% secure application.
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As they say, prevention is better than cure. The hacker will most certainly be caught.
You may be able to punish him. But the damage was already done. If you can prevent
him from entering, you are the winner.
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If you want to develop a truly secure web application -
Talk to us.
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