If you haven’t addressed client-side security, your WebSec strategy is incomplete. The 3rd party digital supply chain that your business relies upon to drive the user experience is the same pathway your adversaries rely upon to steal sensitive customer data – credit card data, PII, PHI…it is all ready for the taking due to the vulnerabilities introduced by the 3rd party JavaScript running on your web properties.
Despite its name, leading ticketing service provider See Tickets was blind to a card skimming attack that pilfered financial and personal information from its online customers for 2 1/2 years.
The JavaScript running on your customer-facing sites — whether it be the first party code your teams have implemented or the likely dozens of 3rd, 4th, and 5th party scripts that your supply chain partners run on your site — opens the door to client-side attacks like Magecart, formjacking, digital skimming, and credential harvesting.
There’s an old saying that leaders can delegate authority but not responsibility. That remains relevant and true in the digital supply chain. Companies can give their supply chain partners authority to operate on their websites, but responsibility for what that 3rd, 4th, and 5th-party code is doing ultimately rests with your internal security team.
. The slim nature of margins for retailers is a major reason that rounding out web security must be a top priority…you can’t afford to lose millions of dollars to security response costs, brand damage, fines for data privacy non-compliance and judgements from class actions.
How much do you know about client-side attacks on web applications? Did you know that this is an area of 3rd party risk that is lingering on your customer facing websites? Did you know that these attacks could cost you millions in losses?
Digital skimming, formjacking, clickjacking, ad injection, content defacement, and Magecart attacks are some of the biggest threats to organizations doing business online. These attacks take advantage of vulnerabilities utilized first- and third-party JavaScript running on websites.
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Cybercriminals like those in the Magecart syndicate are increasingly targeting unprotected web applications on the client side because the JavaScript security gap highlighted here is an opportunity too lucrative for them to ignore.
