One feature of 4D, in your favor.. little danger of SQL-injection :)

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Mehboob Alam <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jason,
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> Apache proxying is very easy. Let me know if you need some hints.
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> For intrusion testing, try playing with Snort
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snort_(software)
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> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Jason Hect <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>
>> Last year we had a large customer (a bank) perform a security  audit.
>>  They have come back with their list of recommendations.  Most  deal with
>> documenting our processes, which is fine, several have to do  with
>> separation of duties, which will be awkward at best (I'm the only
>>  developer), and then there are these two points that deal directly with
>>  our website.  On the website, the bank's customers can request  supplies,
>> and we collect their shipping address and account number used  for payment.
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>> The   website is hosted on server side and is not designed with a 3 tier
>>   architecture, separating the web presentation, business logic and
>> database   layers onto separate servers and network zones. Remediation
>> Plan: Implement 3   tier architecture, separating the web presentation,
>> business logic and   database layers onto separate servers and network
>> zones.
>>
>>
>> No   penetration and vulnerability tests are conducted against the
>> website used   for processing JPMC confidential data. Remediation Plan:
>> Perform penetration   tests for the website and remediate any issues found.
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> For the first point, how would that work, or is it even possible with an
>> Active4D / 4D hosted website?  I'm thinking this means hosting the website
>> with Apache (or similar) and proxying the requests as needed back to 4D.
>>  I've glossed over those posts in the past, as I wasn't interested in
>> adding the complexity.  If that's the route I need to go, I'll start doing
>> some more searching, but a high level, "this is how it would work" is what
>> I need now.
>>
>> For the second point, any recommendations for penetration testing?  I'd
>> probably like to do something quick and dirty and cheap/free now, just to
>> see if there are any glaring issues, and then pay for a more robust test
>> later to satisfy the customer?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
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