Proactive Security Framework for Online Business Web Portals with Implementation Details

Abstract

Most of the critical information is stored or travelled throughout the Internet and prone to cyber threats all the time. The current manuscript provides a process to develop and implement an automated proactive security framework to alert/avoid such cyber threats for the critical online information. In addition, it also describes a feasibility study towards the adoption of the proposed process by the current user community with favorable results.

The proposed work is able to help for the development of security add-ons to almost all the embedded software applications for the better secured services to the users.

Keywords

• Cyber defense, SQL injection, Automated Security Framework, Design Methodology, Feasibility Study

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