Protecting Users: The Importance Of Defending Public Sites

One of the biggest struggles in the field of application security is trying to convince customers and clients to pay attention to the security of public facing sites that do not transmit sensitive data. In the current state of Cyberland, we have improved at protecting our infrastructure and creating robust firewalls. We have even started to improve the protection of sites transmitting sensitive data online with the implementation of solid input validation and other related methods. However; it's becoming more and more evident that our weaknesses are our public facing sites which transmit no sensitive data and could serve as gateways to sensitive information and networks. Government agencies are tasked with providing services to constituents. To fulfill their mission these agencies must maintain the trust of the general public. Cross-Site Scripting is one of the most prevalent and dangerous vulnerabilities to web applications, especially government applications that hold the information and data of each and every citizen. Wisely investing security dollars on applications not transmitting sensitive data will help resolve these weak points in the enterprise.