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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Scripting and Security in Computer Networks and Web Browsers
Author : Joseph Migga Kizza
Published in: Guide to Computer Network Security
Publisher: Springer London
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The rapid growth of the Internet and its ability to offer services have made it the fastest-growing medium of communication today. Today’s and tomorrow’s business transactions involving financial data, product development and marketing, storage of sensitive company information, and the creation, dissemination, sharing, and storing of information are and will continue to be made online, most specifically on the Web. The automation and dynamic growth of an interactive Web has created a huge demand for a new type of Web programming to meet the growing demand of millions of Web services from users around the world. Some services and requests are tedious and others are complex, yet the rate of growth of the number of requests, the amount of services requested in terms of bandwidth, and the quality of information requested warrant a technology to automate the process. Script technology came in timely to the rescue. Scripting is a powerful automation technology on the Internet that makes the Web highly interactive.