From 6aa2d887ea3c79cf4d9e89a5706b363b3f6d9a2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcin Zelent Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 13:37:33 +0200 Subject: Update README.md --- README.md | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 09f3e75..76f7d08 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1 +1,24 @@ -# 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/) -- cgit v1.2.3