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Protection of Web Applications from the Position of their Resistance to the Main Information Security Threats

Student: Osadchaya Alina

Supervisor: Oleg Kovalev

Faculty: Graduate School of Business

Educational Programme: Information Security Management (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

This final qualifying work describes problems of the protection of web applications, which does not lose relevance for quite a long time due to the rapid development of information technologies necessary for the creation and functioning of web applications, as well as the emergence of new and improved old methods of attacks on them. The purpose of this work is to identify and analyze the main information security threats of web applications and to develop methods to prevent and protect against them. During this final qualifying work, a typical structure of web applications was reviewed with an overview of used creation technologies, legal acts in the field of protection of web applications were studied, their main threats and vulnerabilities were identified and assessed according to the degree of criticality. The final stage of work was the development of methods to counter identified information security threats. The structure of the work is represented by the introduction, three chapters, conclusion and list of references. In the work 3 tables and 4 figures are used, the list of references contains 29 sources. The total amount of final qualifying work is 53 pages.

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