5 High-end Security Features of Dot Net Application Development

In the rapid-changing application development environment of recent times, security has become an elemental feature of an application. However, most of the times, professionals and entrepreneurs didn’t give much focus towards inculcating the security features while developing the codes. Well, the reasons may vary from inability of the development platform to assist developers in inducing the best practices or lack of extensive knowledge or farsightedness.

Dot Net Application Development

The beauty of .Net lies in its simplicity and ability to offer a range of easy-to-use in-built features to the developers. The platform boasts a vast library of measures and countermeasures as well to combat against various vulnerabilities and threats. Thus, in this blog, we would like to talk about some of the high-end, robust features of this platform which, would help in getting a view about the security level of Dot Net-built applications and websites.

Validate request

The web applications which, are developed by deploying the .Net framework functions input filtering for eliminating the malicious inputs by using the feature of Validate Request. The Validate Request attribute checks that whether, the users are sending any type of dangerous special characters or JavaScript or HTML or SQL keywords in the form fields or query strings. Well, if that gets detected somehow, then an exception must be thrown and the request gets aborted.

Authentication and Cookies

Cookies typically operate as a type of persistent links in between the server and browser. They aid in maintaining the state in between them. However, cookies might get stolen and even poisoned. Asp.Net facilitates a less cookie session state and furthermore, Asp.Net 2.0 introduces the authentication of cookie less forms.    

Database perspective

SQL injection is certainly a popular form of attack which, exploits the applications that deploy unfiltered user input for forming dynamic SQL queries. However, this code typically concatenates the user input directly along with SQL statement. This further allows the attacker to view most of the details from database and even insert details of new users as well along with the Admin rights into the database directly. Thus, the administrator or developer must be equipped with the various effective ways of thwarting the malicious SQL injection attacks.

Character encoding

For stopping the attack by deploying canonicalization, character encoding is set for checking the representation of input. Well, it can be done within the Web.config file.

Custom error pages

When the mode of ‘custom errors’ is turned off, the Asp.Net environment helps the remote hacker or user to see the full stack trace. The more information the hacker receives about the website, the more he becomes closer to attacking it successfully. Well, we can certainly prevent the information leakage to occur by improvising the mode attribute of <customErrors> to RemoteOnly or On.   

Internet is perhaps the most run time while considering all the different types of run time environments. Thus, while deploying the process of dot net application development, you must seek for expert hands who can seamlessly execute the process and drive you to fetch successful results.