Subu Ramanathan explains the solution to eradicate CSRF

by Security Compass
 | August 13, 2013

Can We End CSRF With Header-Based Browser Policies?

Newly proposed Storage Origin Security (SOS) policy presented at Black Hat could offer a simpler way to combat cross-site request forgery

As the security community continues to look for easier ways to mitigate the risk of all-too-common Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks, many within the industry have lamented the difficulties that make it tough to do CSRF token deployment just right. With so many moving parts, CSRF tokens are frequently used insecurely, if at all. That is why a pair of researchers from Qualys are now proposing a new header-based browser policy that they say could affect a much simpler and, therefore, more broadly effective means of countering CSRF attack techniques.

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