Do you think protecting a organization from bad guys is an easy task? not as easy as you/people think, indeed its a difficult task to handle. War between hackers and pentesters on securing and exploiting a website is on one such task which is ageing from past 10+ years, worst part is high level management with in an organization is unaware of risks involved in not prioritising security.
Not just startups even some MNCs fail to take a baby step towards securing their organization because of some of the below security myths.
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My organization has passed security compliance from ISO 27001 hence its completely secured
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Network/ Application security audits catch all the vulnerabilities
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Web Application Security Assessments find all vulnerabilities and no way bad guy can hack
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My developers are skilled, We never had any data breaches on our organization and we are safe!
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Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Protects my website
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We are a mid-size and with limited network/application, hence security is not an issue
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We have widely used firewalls and routers which defend us from attacks
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Blame game within an organization between developers of application side and network side(lack of information)
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Programming/Scripting languages used are secured languages
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We don’t have anything worth to steal or trouble
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Anti-Virus is protecting me against malware’s and fresh exploits
- Data stored in our systems are encrypted/salted and completely under our control
