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Identify application integrity issues with error monitoring

Identify application integrity issues with error monitoring

From the course: Cloud Security for Financial Services

Identify application integrity issues with error monitoring

Application integrity issues have the potential to devastatingly affect companies in the financial services industry. This is because in the world of finance, even one digit or decimal point can make a huge difference. While a web application firewall can protect against common attacks coming from the internet. This may not help us identify attacks to do with application integrity issues. Error monitoring helps protect the integrity of data in motion by identifying application integrity issues such as currency rounding, a common fintech vulnerability. This is because application integrity issues often throw warnings or errors on AWS. We have the option of using AWS X-ray, which helps developers analyze and debug applications, especially those built using a microservices architecture. However, it currently only supports a limited number of programming languages. As such, we will use the Third-Party Tools: Sentry, which helps developers diagnose, fix, and optimize the performance of…

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