Security and Scalability of E-Commerce Website by OWASP threats.

Abstract

In the current age of fast demanding services related to the E-Commercial commodities, it becomes the need of the hour to protect each and every detail of our customer and the website because after all, security of the data is our prime priority. Moreover this field has good set of areas in which extensive studies and research could be done. Each year we see thousands of local website and their data which is leaked or get encountered by some of top programmers. In this paper, we will try to secure our website from some of the top listed threats on OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project), which is also known as OWASP 10. The paper is a detailed analysis of how to secure our website from phishing attack, broken authentication, sensitive data exposure, XSS Attack, parameter tampering and SQL injection. In terms of scalability we will go with the technique of database replication and. To make our study effective we will be using various cheat sheets by OWASP and some tools like Jenkins, burp suite, network scanner, wire-shark.