Why CMS platforms are breeding security vulnerabilities

Abstract

Several statistics-gathering engines on the web reveal an interesting picture. Content management systems (CMS) have become far more popular in the past couple of years. A trend graph over at builtwith.com shows that over 20% of the top 10,000 websites rely on CMS.1 And it's fair to assume that the number is higher for companies that use a CMS as a middleware between their content and their front-end website. But like all software, and this is without exception, CMSs have many security concerns. Content management systems (CMS) have become far more popular in the past couple of years. But like all software, CMSs have many security concerns. Third-party software like this is out of your control. The popularity of CMSs has been a boon for hackers, giving them a much larger surface area to attack. But, as Barry Shteiman of Imperva explains, there are steps you can take to improve your security when using CMSs.