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Everything about Security Misconfiguration

Gupta Bless
5 min readSep 5, 2021

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Introduction

Nowadays it is common as sometimes teams do not give proper concern to security best practices or the security has been misconfigured such as disclosing server version or the information. Sometimes there may be situations where the organization does not follow some base standards while implementing the security policy. They are always in that mindset that security is implemented and it comes in the OWASP Top 10. Let us discuss it in detail, why it occurs, its remediation and other basic stuff regarding it.

What are Security Misconfiguration Issues?

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As the name indicates, a team is not able to implement the proper security practices when configuring their assets, servers or applications. Security misconfiguration leads to information disclosure and can compromise the application “Availability”, “Integrity”, “Confidentiality”.

Assets include all those that are needed to run the organization’s infrastructure…

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Gupta Bless
Gupta Bless

Written by Gupta Bless

Security enthusiast working to secure web for others.

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