Entropy of a password defines its ability to resist brute-force attacks, so it's an important factor in cybersecurity and web development. Web developers can block poor passwords to protect users from data breaches, but they first must understand the way entropy is calculated. The bit value in an entropy calculation can be done with a scientific calculation using the number of characters in a password and the possible number of values for each character. | Read More →

Testing an application for cybersecurity vulnerabilities and the potential for data breaches should be a part of your software development. Blackbox and whitebox fuzzing performs different types of reviews and testing so that software developers can find security issues before hackers find them. Both types have a place in web development, so you should choose at least one before deploying an application to the internet. | Read More →

Testing is critical in web development to find bugs before customers find them and to safeguard the application from exploits and data breaches. Cybersecurity should be a priority in web development, but you need the right tools to test software and find vulnerabilities. A static application security testing (SAST) tool finds vulnerabilities during the coding process, and a dynamic application security testing (DAST) tool finds vulnerabilities in software deployed to production. | Read More →

WordPress powers a large percentage of the world's websites, so it's critical that site owners implement cybersecurity across all their WordPress sites. A web application firewall (WAF) is one way to protect from web-based attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, and cross-site request forgery (CSRF). Hackers create scripts to automatically compromise WordPress sites, and a WAF can stop many of these scripted attacks. | Read More →

The Mirai botnet and malware were able to bring down the internet using gigabytes of data sent to targeted businesses including Dyn, a provider of DNS. Botnets cause spikes in internet traffic that crash servers and critical web services, and Mirai is one of the most effective at it. Mirai infects IoT devices running embedded Linux, which powers much of the world's routers, cameras, mobile devices, smart home automation, and many other components. To add cybersecurity to your IoT devices, you must change the default password as soon as you install and use them in your home or business. | Read More →

To better improve customer experience and overall revenue of your business, you need a fast application. Application performance monitoring tools detect usage spikes, errors, and poor user behavior patterns so that you can review your web application for issues. With the right application monitoring, you can retain customers and improve the user experience so that customers do not leave your site for a competitor. | Read More →