security audit
My brother had always been the tech savvy sibling of our home. While I would be trying to master dodgeball and collect rocks and shells, he would be fiddling with making his first website with Geocities and learning the joys of manipulating GIFs. Needless to say, I really respect his opinion when it comes to computer issues. This is especially true whenever he comments on security issues for computers or websites.
He recently bought a random website address and spruced it up using AJAX type programming to make a virtual Mother's Day card for our mom. Quite frankly, it was a very creative idea, and it would last as long as he owned the website and kept it running. In the process of making it however, he started to be a lot more aware of security issues. While I mulled over what to write on the website and agonized about which pictures to include for the various pages, my brother started to read up on and become a strong believer in the security audit. This audit is a periodic check of your websites to check for security loopholes. One such device could be the web application scanner, which helps spot loopholes for the web applications of your website. I didn't know this, but web applications include things like online message boards or digital shopping carts. The Mother's Day website probably wouldn't have either of these, but he found it interesting nonetheless.
Also, given that he was using AJAX stuff to form a creative website, he started to look into AJAX application security as well. This creative programming tool could also be vulnerable to hacker attacks, and he wanted to be ready for all those who would hack into our dear mother's website. In all seriousness, though, he emphasized the need to conduct a regular security audit where website cracks would be exposed. After setting up his site, he ran a web application scanner to quickly check if people entering text into the "comments" box of the website could use it as a doorway to see more of the website.
AJAX application security was especially important since he planned to use a lot of AJAX applications to spruce up our Mother's Day website. We wanted to add flash animation and dynamic backgrounds for the website. It was the least we could do for the infinitely greater sacrifice our mother had made for us throughout the years.