SWART: Secure Web Application Response Tool

Web applications are increasingly used to provide e-services such as online banking, online shopping, and social networking over the internet. With this advancement, the attacks over the web applications have also increased. According to Cenzic 2013 report 99% of web applications are vulnerable tested in 2012 [1]. The root causes behind these vulnerabilities are lack of security awareness, design flaws & implementation bugs. Writing secure code for web application is a complex task as developer emphasis more on implementation of business logic for web application rather than implementing it with secure logic. These vulnerabilities might be exploited by malicious users which can harm the database & reputation of an organization. In this paper we have proposed an Application Intrusion Detection System tool which can detect & prevent web application attacks at the time of occurrence. We have implemented proposed approach with ASP.NET web application and also perform Chi Square test to validate our assumptions. Once completed SWART has future potential to detect and prevent maximum attacks with less complexity.