A Survey on SQL Injection Attack Countermeasures Techniques

Aniruddh R. Ladole, D. A. Phalke

Abstract: As users of internet is increasing day by day. The demands for web services and mobile web application are also increased. The probability of a system being attacked is also increased. All the web applications maintain information at the backend database from which results are retrieved. As these services or web application, can be accessed from anywhere around the world which needs to be always available to all the clients, partners employees, and for different users located at different parts of world. SQL Injection Attack is nowadays one of the topmost threats for web application security as it is the easier than other attacks. Using SQL Injection attackers can steal confidential information. In this paper has reviewed most of the SQL injection attacks detection systems proposed by different authors. This paper can be useful to other researchers for their work who plans to work in security of the database from SQL Injection attacks.

Keywords: SQLIA, Information security, web application vulnerability, cyber security