In your hands is a book that is an essential companion safeguarding the increasingly critical Web sites and e-commerce systems that are the cornerstone of global e-businesses. Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense offers the distilled experience of leading security consultants that will help level the playing field for the beleaguered security and IT staff challenged with fending off the hacker onslaught—those who see the Internet as a faster and more efficient mechanism for stealing from and abusing others. If you read and apply the lessons offered here, some of the most disreputable people on the Internet are going to be severely disappointed, as some of their most effective tricks will be useless against your sites. They will have to be much more creative and work a lot harder to compromise the security of your applications. These pages are filled with the knowledge and distilled experience of some of the world's best white-hat hackers, the stalwart consultants of Foundstone.