What is Security Misconfiguration and How to Avoid It

Ron previously served as the director of product management at Guardicore.

Security Misconfiguration is simply defined as failing to implement all the security controls for a server or web application, or implementing the security controls, but doing so with errors. What a company thought of as a safe environment actually has dangerous gaps or mistakes that leave the organization open to risk. According to the OWASP top 10, this type of misconfiguration is number 6 on the list of critical web application security risks.

How to detect security misconfiguration - diagnosing and determining the Issue

The truth is, you probably do have misconfigurations in your security, as this is a widespread problem, and can happen at any level of the application stack.…