Web application security assessment combines information security best practices and technologies specifically designed to test websites, web-based services, and web applications.

Web application Security Assessment is the process of using penetration testing techniques on a web application to detect its vulnerabilities. It aims to break into the web application using any penetration attacks or threats. Web Application Security Assessment involves security analysis of the web applications to find vulnerabilities, technical flaws and weaknesses in the applications. If not tested properly the adversaries can attack these applications and their servers to compromise application data, business logic or steal sensitive data.

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Web application Security Assessment works by using manual or automated penetration tests to identify any vulnerability, security flaws or threats in a web application. It will typically include safety protocols, security checks, and regular assessments, as well as safe coding practices, secure firewalls, vulnerability testing, and the installation of protocols that will ensure safe operation. The tests involve using/implementing any of the known malicious penetration attacks on the application. The penetration tester exhibits/fabricates attacks and environment from an attacker’s perspective, such as using SQL injection tests. The web application Security Assessment key outcome is to identify security weakness across the entire web application and its components (source code, database, back-end network). It also helps in prioritizing the identified vulnerabilities and threats, and possible ways to mitigate them.

Methodology

Testing is carried out following the below methods:

  • Application crawling
  • Authentication Testing
  • Session Management Testing
  • Data Validation Testing
  • Access Control
  • Web service Testing
  • Configuration management testing
  • Business Logic Testing
  • Risk Assessment
  • Reporting

Benefits

The main benefits of a Web Application security assessment are:

  • Helps in identifying unknown vulnerabilities.
  • Helps in checking the effectiveness of the overall security policies.
  • Helps in finding the loopholes which can lead to theft of sensitive data.
  • Will safeguarding the Brand Name
  • The report includes detailed technical descriptions of all the steps undertaken in the test, remediate recommendations remediate those vulnerabilities and all the discovered vulnerabilities and weaknesses.