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Vulnerability assessment in Malaysia government web-based application

The web technology provides various benefits of changing the way of life. People of today, computers seem to be accessible everywhere, whenever want and help make lives easier and more entertaining. It also becomes a tool for government sectors to provide information and services to citizens. Today,...

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Main Author: Lau, Lee Keng
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2020
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T Technology (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4991/1/LAU_LEE_KENG.pdf
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spelling my-utar-eprints.49912022-12-26T09:37:35Z Vulnerability assessment in Malaysia government web-based application Lau, Lee Keng T Technology (General) The web technology provides various benefits of changing the way of life. People of today, computers seem to be accessible everywhere, whenever want and help make lives easier and more entertaining. It also becomes a tool for government sectors to provide information and services to citizens. Today, to minimize the probability of vulnerabilities exist in web applications, organizations need some methodologies or approaches to increase efforts to protect against web application attack or data breaches. In order to protect organization’s confidential data, there are several methodologies or standards that have commonly used by industry to identify and detect vulnerability exist in web app lications. One of the important steps to ensure the security of web application is conducting vulnerability assessment periodically. This study focuses on studying the OWASP Top 10 most command vulnerability. Manual vulnerability assessment with black box testing was implemented in several Malaysia government web applications to identity their vulnerabilities, the data found was analysed to draw statistical conclusion of the present condition of government web application. Lastly, we also discuss the impact of the vulnerability attacks and proposed possible mitigation strategies. 2020 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4991/1/LAU_LEE_KENG.pdf Lau, Lee Keng (2020) Vulnerability assessment in Malaysia government web-based application. Master dissertation/thesis, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4991/
institution Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
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topic T Technology (General)
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Lau, Lee Keng
Vulnerability assessment in Malaysia government web-based application
description The web technology provides various benefits of changing the way of life. People of today, computers seem to be accessible everywhere, whenever want and help make lives easier and more entertaining. It also becomes a tool for government sectors to provide information and services to citizens. Today, to minimize the probability of vulnerabilities exist in web applications, organizations need some methodologies or approaches to increase efforts to protect against web application attack or data breaches. In order to protect organization’s confidential data, there are several methodologies or standards that have commonly used by industry to identify and detect vulnerability exist in web app lications. One of the important steps to ensure the security of web application is conducting vulnerability assessment periodically. This study focuses on studying the OWASP Top 10 most command vulnerability. Manual vulnerability assessment with black box testing was implemented in several Malaysia government web applications to identity their vulnerabilities, the data found was analysed to draw statistical conclusion of the present condition of government web application. Lastly, we also discuss the impact of the vulnerability attacks and proposed possible mitigation strategies.
format Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
author Lau, Lee Keng
author_facet Lau, Lee Keng
author_sort Lau, Lee Keng
title Vulnerability assessment in Malaysia government web-based application
title_short Vulnerability assessment in Malaysia government web-based application
title_full Vulnerability assessment in Malaysia government web-based application
title_fullStr Vulnerability assessment in Malaysia government web-based application
title_full_unstemmed Vulnerability assessment in Malaysia government web-based application
title_sort vulnerability assessment in malaysia government web-based application
publishDate 2020
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4991/1/LAU_LEE_KENG.pdf
http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4991/
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