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\section{Introduction}
One of the mandatory activities in Computer Science course at Erhvervsakademi
-Sjælland is an individual specialization project. In this project, student has
+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 the synopsis.
+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
+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
+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.
\section{Problem definition}
-During my research I am going