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Web applications process billions of transactions every day, handling everything from user credentials to financial records. This constant exchange of data makes them prime targets for attackers who are looking to gain access for data theft or service disruption. Web application security vulnerabilities are highly sophisticated attack vectors that can exploit authentication flows, business logic, and API integrations.

A Fintech business serving 10,000 customers passes their annual pentest in January. In March, a developer pushed an authentication update to production. And within 48 hours, attackers discover an exposed API endpoint. Customer data leaks. Legal fees pile up. The company’s last pentest report? Still sitting in a folder, completely irrelevant to the actual vulnerability. Research shows 50% of SMBs fail within six months of a data breach.

In cloud service providers (CSPs) such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls who has access to which resources through roles, policies, and permissions. IAM is about who can do what, like letting a developer read from a Database, but not delete it. Misconfigured IAM, such as roles with unnecessary privileges, is the common cause of unauthorized access/exploit/ data breaches, and resource abuse.

Azure Blob Storage is an object storage solution. It stores massive amounts of unstructured data, such as text files, images, videos, etc. It supports large-scale data for applications such as backup, data lakes, and media serving. Specifically, Azure Blob Storage security prevents unauthorized access, data leakage, and potential breaches.