EVALUATION OF WEB APPLICATION SECURITY IN AFGHANISTAN
Abdullah Hamidi, Mohammad Mustafa Naier, Mohammad Rafi Bahez · International Journal of Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology · 2020
Security is an important concern to be considered in web application development.Some web applications are developed and maintained by the developers yearly and published on the World Wide Web.Due to the nature of web applications, they are located on the internet and accessed by different people.Sometimes, it happens that a group of people wants to access information stored by the web applications, remove their data or access their software systems without having authorized access.Many students are graduated from computer science faculties in Afghanistan yearly.However, they introduced to the most known technologies in software and web application development, but they are not completely aware of security issues, threats, and vulnerabilities of their software systems.Therefore, they are graduated and start developing various types of applications for different private and public sector organizations.It is vital to the educational institutes to provide more information and guidelines about different types of vulnerabilities, threats, and ways to overcome security challenges in their software and web application development courses.To get a better idea about the current situations among students and developers different surveys and interviews conducted.The results show, most of the students, graduates and developers are suffer from lack of information about most known security risks to consider in the development of web applications.Therefore, recommendation and suggestions are provided to mitigate and overcome the problems of security concerns in the application development in Afghanistan.