In Secure Web Development
An asset might be a customer or order database on an e-commerce site, the posts in a personal guest book or messages that relate to an innovative product a company is developing that are posted on a password-protected message board system.
Abstract
Security is about protecting assets from a malicious and intelligent adversary. An asset might be a customer or order database on an e-commerce site, the posts in a personal guest book or messages that relate to an innovative product a company is developing that are posted on a password-protected message board system. The malicious adversary may be a competitor on an espionage mission, a SPAMmer looking for yet another way to send their junk emails without getting caught or a teenager who likes to show off by defacing websites.