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Virtually all enterprise applications and assets have become web-facing whether in the form of a traditional web-application, cloud applications, APIs, microservices, or legacy apps accessed through a web interface. These applications are being continuously developed and delivered at unprecedented speed, and are constantly being probed and attacked by human and automated threats.

Due to the increased use of web applications as business workhorses and as targets for threat actors, securing web applications is just as essential as the capabilities of the web applications themselves. This paper explores the threats organizations face - from hackers exploiting private data and from their defenses against those attacks falling too far behind.