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Sengupta, Saptak; Goethem, Tom Van; Demir, Nurullah ORCID iD icon

Abstract:

We are becoming more and more digital today. We are not only digitizing our business but also our private life. We contact people online, send messages, share moments with friends, do our business, and organize our daily routine. At the same time, this shift means that more and more critical data is being digitized and processed privately and commercially. In this context, cybersecurity is also becoming more and more important as its goal is to safeguard users by offering availability, integrity and confidentiality of user data. When we look at today’s technology, we see that web resources are increasingly used to provide digitally delivered solutions. It also means that there is a strong link between our modern life and the security of web applications due to their widespread use.

This chapter analyzes the current state of security on the web and gives an overview of methods that the web community uses (and misses) to protect their environment. More specifically, in this report, we analyze different metrics on Transport Layer Security (HTTPS), such as general implementation, protocol versions, and cipher suites. We also give an overview of the techniques used to protect cookies. ... mehr


Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Informationssicherheit und Verlässlichkeit (KASTEL)
Publikationstyp Buchaufsatz
Publikationsdatum 01.12.2021
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000142782
Erschienen in The 2021 Web Almanac
Verlag HTTP Archive
Seiten 775 S.
Externe Relationen Abstract/Volltext
Schlagwörter web security, HTTPArchive, web measurement
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