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The Modern Web Application: A Twisted Mess of Third-Party Dependencies

For most organizations, the company website is a core part of their ability to do business. For the modern consumer, an organization’s web presence is their preferred choice for interacting with a company. Customers will browse the organization’s product offerings on the website and talk to customer service through live chat. As an obvious result, an organization’s website security is vital. A cyberattack against an organization’s web presence can have significant business impacts. These can range from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack creating site lag that drives customers to more responsive sites to data skimming malware designed to steal payment card information. Securing an organization’s website requires securing the web applications that run on it. However, this can be more difficult that it would seem. The modern web application isn’t written using fully in-house code. Instead, web developers take advantage of a wide range of third-party code and libraries to speed