What is the role of web applications?
This is the widely used applications for businesses to present themselves, their brand, and services to the outside world. According to the size and complexity of the business services and features, the web applications vary accordingly from a simple business shop-front to providing their clients with a features rich experience through both mobile and web platforms.
If there is a little bit of compromise done to a web application from creation to usage, it could attract a malicious threat actor who will be able to easily gain access to the internal network. Moreover, your database server hosting sensitive information gets disclosed for instance username and password and other important credentials like payment card data and personal data.
How a web application penetration testing can be used?
Web application penetration testing evaluates the security of a web application that involves manual analysis. The certified security consultants will identify the security weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and technical flaws measuring the damage done by the malicious attacker and learning the mindset in the web application and any underlying technology. Moreover, it also covers any business logic accessed by a user or any other system like via web services (APIs).
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What are the technologies in-scope of testing includes?
- Thin (E.G. Hyper-V, Citrix) Application Environments
- Web Applications
- Thick Or Client-Server Applications
- Application APIs (Soap, Rest, Social Media APIs)
- The Growing Market of Mobile Apps.
The security issues that are discovered will be given in a complete report, together with an assessment of their impact, a suggestion for remediation, and/or any technical solutions that are available.
The report’s format enables the company to determine the best course of action for addressing the vulnerability and therefore reducing the application’s attack surface.
Overview
In order to formulate realistic attack scenarios, our web application penetration test investigates every aspect of the web application, aiming to understand the application’s function.
Our security consultants undertake privilege escalation right from lower privileged positions as part of the web application penetration testing, seeking to acquire access to resources reserved and functionality for more privileged roles.
What is covered by the methodology?
- Information Gathering
- Research And Exploitation
- Reporting And Recommendations
- Remediation And Ongoing Support
A full web application assessment report will be created, including a brief non-technical executive summary describing the overall security of the application.
This report will assist budget approvers to immediately grasp the risk the application pose recently, as well as the budgetary, timeline, and resource implications of any repair.
Each vulnerability is fully detailed in the report, including:
- The risk assessment,
- Ease of attack,
- A CVE reference,
- The CVSS v2 score and vector,
- CWE reference, if applicable,
- And any supporting evidence
- There is also information on how to resolve each issue.