The expanding use of the internet for business operations has alerted the threat landscape.

Attackers are now more professional, and they are driven by profit, rather than notoriety.

Moreover, strong network defenses have been deployed to fend off those attackers.

Consequently, they have moved down the stack to the point that they are targeting the application layer, especially the web application layer.

This tactic is leveraged because the web application layer is outward facing and a breach in this layer will get hackers directly to the data they want.

We interview John Weinschhenk to gain insight into how to strengthen web applications at the application level.

John is Cenzic's CEO.