In the recent years there have been numerous cases of vulnerabilities created by web applications. Although there has been increasing concern from the concerned parties about the security and questions continue to be asked on whether there’s adequate protection for the sensitive data that is usually transferred through the web. At the moment, no web application technology has proved itself to be invulnerable to the dangers faced by such owners or users in terms of security and privacy aspects.

Most security professionals have over the years focused on both network and operating system security to curb this vice. The assessment procedures relied heavily on the automated tools to find and eliminate any loopholes in these layers. The tools were generally developed by a number of skilled technical individuals. At the moment a silver bullet which cures the web applications demerits is still under construction and the first approach is to help individuals understand the inherent problems associated with this.