The Security Vulnerability

Running head: DISCUSSION Discussion Name of Student Name of University Author Note DISCUSSION 1 One of the most significant changes since 2013, is the change in fundamental technology and architecture of the application. The use of microservices is seen to be prevalent and creation of highly modular feature -rich front ends is seen. Along with that, J avascript has been set to be the primary language along with the .js running server side coupled with modern frameworks such as Bootstrap, electron etc . (OWASP, 2017 ). The insufficient logging, detection, monitoring and active response can occur any time and failed login can significantly increase the overall risk factors and hence this particular risk or issue is required to be prevented. This particular risk can be prevented by ensuring the fact that all login and access control failures have sufficient u ser to identify and detect occurrences of any suspicious activities. Based on the discussions occurred in the class so far, I could understand the fact that threat agents act as an attack vector and hence continuous monitoring of the threats in a particul ar network is a necessity. The threat vectors look for the security vulnerability in a system and hence proper security monitoring is needed to be enforced. One of the easiest ways of identifying a security vulnerability is penetration testing (OWASP, 2017 ). Apart from that effective security monitoring and control is necessary to be enforced to reduce any type of significant risks related to intrusion . The inefficiency of the log files can be easily identified through penetration testing and hence, it is necessary for the developers to perform such tests on the log files to identify the threats associated with the same (Huang et al., 2017) . It is the easiest method to prevent a risk or eliminate the risk from its source. DISCUSSION 2 References Huang, H. C., Zhang, Z . K., Cheng, H. W., & Shieh, S. W. (2017). Web application security: threats, countermeasures, and pitfalls. Computer , 50 (6), 81 -85. OWASP, T. (2017). Top 10 -2017 the ten most critical web application security risks. URL: owasp. org/images/7/72/OWASP_Top_1 0-2017_% 28en , 29 .