Security on Web-Based Applications: Technologies, Methodologies, Analysis Methods and Recent Advances in Cybersecurity

Dear Colleagues,

The continuous increase in the frequency and danger of attacks against the security of the information systems and the architectures that support them make it necessary to update and improve the methodologies related to the implementation and analysis of security and defense procedures, to provide greater security to online systems and applications of any type of organization.

To achieve this goal, it is necessary to start implementing security in web applications and web services from the beginning of its construction, using a “secure” software development life cycle (SSDLC). To adopt an SSDLC process, an improvement in security awareness is required at all departmental levels of any organization, whether public or private, and involves the carrying out of various security activities from the analysis and design phases, through implementation and testing to end the application deployed in the production phase. It is in the production phase that our Web applications architectures will be exposed to continuous attacks taking advantage of vulnerabilities not yet discovered. This Special Issue will provide a forum to present research papers showing advances in the defense techniques of web applications and web service architectures and technologies.

This Special Issue invites emerging topics related to the areas of implementation research and security test to fit in the scope of the journal and select high-quality research papers. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• New implementations of “secure” SDLC processes for web applications and web services;
• Threat modeling and derivation of security requirements tools and methods for web applications and web services;
• Development of libraries for security validation of data in web application source codes;
• Static analysis security tools (SAST) for web applications and web services;
• Dynamic black box (DAST) and white box (IAST, RASP) security analysis tools;
• Hybrid security analysis tools;
• Security analysis methodologies for web applications and web services;
• Forensic analysis in web applications;
• Benchmarking to compare the effectiveness of static, dynamic or hybrid security analysis tools for web applications and web services;
• Machine learning techniques for detecting anomalies in web applications and web services;
• Development of new security requisites and specifications for emerging web applications and web services technologies and architectures;
• Web applications attacks patterns modeling;
• New security monitorization and visualization techniques, methods for web applications and web services;
• Protection against malware on web resources;
• Analysis and detection of web-based malware;
• Malicious web content detection by machine learning

Prof. Dr. Juan Antonio Sicilia Montalvo
Prof. Dr. Juan Ramón Bermejo Higuera
Prof. Dr. Javier Bermejo Higuera
Guest Editors

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