Severity measure of issues creating vulnerabilities in websites using two way assessment technique

Abstract

Defects and faults that create vulnerabilities are dangerous for websites. Our major objective is to reduce those attacks on websites by controlling the issues responsible for these attacks. In this paper we have classified those issues into 10 categories and given them precedence according to their severity. These issues have impact which attributes to losses in terms of monetary as well as humanity. By prioritizing these issues, web designers as well as users will check twice on these aspects before entering confidential information into the website. The opinion of different web designers and experts of different companies was captured to prioritize these issues using Analytical Hierarchical Process and Two way assessment methods so that the loss should be minimized. Our findings confirm that total severity measure facilitates the severity of these issue's contribution towards vulnerabilities. Using two way assessment technique we found that there was one such issue which happened to be highly severe and needs urgent attention while designing the websites by web developers and also by customers way ahead of sharing their private information on a website to minimize the losses.