I have been wondering for quite some time, so as to what should i begin this Security School with and everytime i sit down to pen something, there have been so many to follow and mention that i felt lost before i could put all the topics together. There was a time when security in the wider sense meant a boundary, an enclosure which protected the application / System from unauthorized personnel and unauthorized access, probably Hackers with malicious intent from gaining access to the routines and the data of an application - mind you the data could be of very high sensitvity, think about your Credit card number for e.g. However as the complexity of the applications and the dependency on Software application increased, the perception of security has evolved to a multi tier gateway. Each tier in the gateway has to ensure the security of its own module. As very frequently said -
"A Cracker just needs to get to one of your vulnerabilities out of the hundreds, that as an ethical hacker you'd need to identify and fix"
Now now, i wouldn't want to confuse you with more technical jargon here in the introduction itself. The articles that are going to follow in the Security School would be quite descriptive and self explanatory. O'course the articles are going to be sequential. Please be advised that the article would be for the ones who have no knowledge on the Application Security paradigm, so have to be a bit simple. The details in the articles would enable you to know more than you already know and would be giving out information on how to keep yourself safe online, from time to time.
~Technology Guru!
