Web Application Penetration Test
The Cybermode Web Application Penetration Test evaluates the security of a web application by methodically validating and verifying the effectiveness of application security controls.
An Often Overlooked Target
A company’s website is often the main mode of communication to its customers. It’s common for businesses to invest a large amount of time, money and resources into their website. It’s one of its greatest assets.
In spite of this many companies don’t give the cybersecurity of their website a second thought - but hackers do. A company’s website is often the main focus of a hacker’s attention. It can be attacked from across the world. Websites are crawled countless times each day by malicious bots and hackers, continually enumerating resources and scanning for weaknesses.
Vulnerabilities can appear in a variety of places: the code used to design the website, in encryption keys that are mistakenly exposed and in the core configurations that are used to control the website.
A hack of a company’s website can have several negative outcomes: a disruption of business, breach of critical customer data, increased insurance costs and damage to reputation.
Cybermode Web Application Penetration Test
Cybermode has based the core of its Web Application Pen Test on the highly regarded OWASP Testing Guide. The OWASP OTG is a comprehensive and mature testing framework that covers the most important areas of web application security. As most web applications are of custom design, the comprehensive penetration test is largely a manual process. Automated scans only go so far.
Web Application Penetration Test Process
The following elements are representative of a Cybermode Web Application Penetration Test:
- Information Gathering
- Configuration and Deployment Management Testing
- Identity Management Testing
- Authentication Testing
- Authorization Testing
- Session Management Testing
- Input Valuation Testing
- Testing for Weak Cryptography
- Business Logic Testing
- Client-Side Testing
All security issues that are identified will be presented to the system owner with an assessment of the impact and a proposal for mitigation or a technical solution.
Web Application Penetration Test Scope
The scope of the Web Application Penetration Test is based on the unique requirements of the target system. Since each web application is a custom design the penetration test must be tailored to the individual distinctive components.
Performing regular Web Application Penetration Tests form Cybermode protects your investment, defends your reputation and ensures that your company can fulfill its business mission.
