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-# application-security
+# Application security
+
+One of the mandatory activities in Computer Science course at Erhvervsakademi
+Sjælland is an individual specialization project. In this project, a student has
+to choose a subject, which was not presented during the lectures, research it
+and describe it in a synopsis.
+
+I have chosen application security as the topic that I want to learn more about.
+Application security is an umbrella term for all of the measures that need to be
+taken in order to make a secure application. That means finding, fixing and
+preventing security vulnerabilities.
+
+I decided to work on this subject, because in previous semesters we have learned
+how to make programs, services, and web applications, but we did not learn how
+to make them safe from exploitation. It is important since a potential attacker
+could use it to gain access to the system without authorization, retrieve some
+sensitive data, abuse or even break the system. This could lead to some serious
+consequences.
+
+This repository contains all resources that I have created during my research:
+- LaTeX files for the synopsis
+- examples of a few chosen security vulnerabilities
+- examples with these weaknesses fixed
+- presentation slides to be displayed with [sent](https://tools.suckless.org/sent/)