Closing vulnerabilities in your apps

Web apps allow users to work faster and more flexibly. They also contain vulnerabilities hackers can – and do – exploit.

To give you some context, in 2023, web applications were the main means of breach hackers used. They featuring in 80% of incidents and 60% of breaches.

Why web applications are a top target for attack

First, many web applications carry vulnerabilities or configuration errors. Second, many contain extremely valuable information, such as personal and financial data. A successful breach will give attackers direct access to that data. Barracuda research shows that 40% of IT professionals who’ve been involved in ethical hacking believe web application attacks are among the most lucrative for cyber-attackers, and 55% say the same for APIs.

How to close vulnerabilities

This e-book takes an in-depth look at three critical attack vectors — API vulnerabilities, bot attacks, and client-side attacks — as well as how organisations can fill the gaps in their application security and protect against these evolving threats.

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Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

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Are your applications potential trojan horses?

Find out if your web applications have security flaws with the Barracuda Vulnerability Manager for free. Use this standalone, no-cost service to get a comprehensive report that outlines any vulnerabilities uncovered and provides recommendations for remediating them.

  • Scan for web application security flaws such as those on the OWASP Top 10.
  • Get a comprehensive report with remediation recommendations.
  • No installation, 2 minutes to set up, easy to use, and completely free.

Don’t give cybercriminals a chance to exploit hidden vulnerabilities. With Barracuda Vulnerability Manager you can get a customised report in minutes. The Complete IT Systems team can then work with you to review the findings and take the necessary steps to remediate.

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Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

The new ABCs of application security

Over the past few years, the threats to applications have multiplied, and newer, more dangerous attack vectors have emerged.

Read our partner Barracuda’s complimentary e-book ‘the new ABCs of application security’ for an in-depth look at three critical attack vectors – API vulnerabilities, bot attacks, and client-side attacks – as well as how you can fill the gaps in your application security and protect your business against these evolving threats. Discover:

  • The challenges of deploying and defending APIs, a prime target for attackers because of their direct access to critical data
  • The importance of detecting and blocking advanced persistent bots that perform account takeover, credential stuffing, and other malicious attacks
  • The technologies being used to fill client-side security gaps and successfully protect against supply-chain attacks

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Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

Securing applications – an expert perspective

The need for securing applications hits the headlines every day. New cybersecurity breaches, ransom attacks and hackers breaching organisations’ critical systems are all commonplace. Applications are a common weakness that malicious actors exploit to gain access into IT infrastructure, and access sensitive data.

Protecting against attacks

To successfully protect against attacks, IT professionals need to be on top of recent data breaches, the main application security vulnerabilities, and how other businesses are dealing with them. They also need to understand the most important product capabilities needed to defend against multi-vector application attacks. From there, plans can be formulated for securing applications and protecting against those top threats.

As part of its recent report entitled “The state of application security in 2021”,  Barracuda Networks surveyed a group of IT professionals worldwide to find out their challenges, opinions, and priorities associated with application security and compiled the results into an insightful market report.

In this insightful webinar, an expert team from Barracuda and Christian Jackson, Platform Manager at the Natural History Museum discuss the report and delve further into its findings.

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Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

How to secure web applications against malicious files

Modern web applications have evolved into a primary form of data communication as well as a platform where end users can easily collaborate, upload documents, images, or other files. However, this has led to applications being able to accept file uploads with any extension or type, giving attackers the opportunity to upload malicious files into applications that exploit both the organisation and its clients. Therefore, filtering uploads by validating for file types or extensions is no longer an effective way of defending against such attacks.

In the recent past, in-house sandboxing techniques have been used in company networks to detect malware in files. However, deploying an appliance for sandboxing and analysing local network files is not scalable, and it also adds severe latency and administrative overhead, which results in badly implemented security.

Additionally, enhanced inspection techniques that send notifications and adequate logging are required to defend against today’s file injections. By immediately notifying the administrator when an attack occurs, they have a better chance of combating threats.

Why anti-virus scanning isn’t enough

Running a business is becoming more dynamic, yet more complex. Unfortunately, this also applies to the business of malware and ransomware. Popular types of malware are being used to target websites, and are rarely detected by traditional anti-virus services.

The origin of these infections is typically through simple actions like file uploads in web applications. Today’s threats spread at a high velocity, making it difficult to detect a threat, isolate the signature, add the signature to databases, and make it publicly and continually available in a very short time. By the time the database update is available, the threat has already compromised a network’s systems and has successfully covered up its tracks.

While these signature-based legacy systems are still important as a first line of defense for prefiltering network traffic, organisations still need an additional security layer to protect against targeted malware.

Read this whitepaper from Barracuda to find out how to secure web applications against malicious file injections.

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Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

Bad bots, broken APIs, and supply chain attacks put business data at risk

Barracuda Networks recently surveyed a group of IT professionals worldwide to find out their challenges, opinions, and priorities associated to application security and compiled the results into an insightful market report.

Read “The state of application security in 2021” to delve into top application security vulnerabilities, data breaches, and the most important product capabilities needed to defend against multi-vector application attacks.

Read the report to find out:

  • The recent data breaches, top application security vulnerabilities, and how businesses are dealing with them.
  • The most important product capabilities needed to defend against multi-vector application attacks.
  • The security solutions decision makers plan to deploy in the next 12 months to protect against top threats.

Want to learn more?

Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.