A Survey of Security Vulnerabilities in PHP Applications among IT Professionals in Nigeria (original) (raw)

This research performs a survey of security vulnerabilities in PHP Application among IT professionals in Nigeria. We targeted 170 IT Professionals in various ICT organizations and institutions in Nigeria. The main instrument for data collection was questionnaire. Stratified random method was used to select respondents from various strata. A total of 170 specialists in the sample which included 95 from ICT organization, 55 from MIS department of higher institutions and 20 ICT lecturers were randomly selected. The data collected from questionnaire were analyzed using simple frequencies and percentages. It was found out that higher numbers of respondent are conversant with PHP and using PHP always, two causes of the security vulnerabilities, SQL injection and source code revelation are been highlighted by the majority of the respondents. Also, majority of respondents were recorded to be having database hacking challenges and suggested that developer should use all the appropriate security measures and function to secure the application i.e. using ESCAPE FUNCTION, Turned OFF register_globals directive etc. PHP is rates high in terms of portability and accessibility, security, ease of operation and comparison to other applications.

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