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Web Application Firewalls and Ways of Seeing Imperfect Tools

Authors:
Andrew Zitek
Aspen Olmsted

Keywords: application firewalls; secure coding

Abstract:
Common wisdom on how to evaluate preventative goods is weak, and as a result cybersecurity suppliers provide tools without hard evidence or guarantees. While it may be naive to expect any one tool to act as a silver bullet, information asymmetry is a problem that can and should be addressed. We argue that well-informed consumers are essential to responding to the security, privacy, and usability challenges associated with developing web applications hosted in the cloud. Accordingly, we study Web Application Firewalls to draw attention to the status quo, and provide questions that allow the public to readily identify information asymmetry in the goods they consider

Pages: 7 to 13

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: April 26, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-778-8

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 25, 2020 to October 29, 2020