Web Application Penetration Test

Web application penetration test involves the evaluation of the security system of your network by posing an attack in the disguise of a malicious user. The test carried out is an effective tool, which can evaluate the ability of your application to withstand a hacker attack. After the tests are completed, any loophole in the application is detected and reported. Thus, you can get the latest security position of your server, network and applications. However, the tests must be carefully and correctly executed, since a poorly executed test can possibly cause significant damage, including system outages. Moreover, if the wrong tests are applied or the right tests are incorrectly executed, it will reveal very little about the existing faults in the system and the erroneous results might even create a false sense of security.

Web applications are increasingly turning more sophisticated with time, and thus, they are becoming more critical for every online business. Even though the requisite sophistication is embedded in these web applications, their constant utilization and public accessibility expose them to hacker attacks. The traditional anti-virus and firewall protection, at times, fail to protect the web applications from such attacks, resulting in mass damage. The web application penetration test ‘penetrates’ into your security system just the way a hacker will enter and thus, revealing the weak sections of the application.

The entire process of the web application penetration test incorporates examining a running application with the most up-to-date tools. The testing is usually done remotely without any knowledge of the intrinsic details of the application. However, the best possible time to carry out the test is when the application is not busy or no maintenance work is going on. To get the most accurate results, the testing must be done with concrete planning and by adopting a series of systematic and repeatable tests.

The web application penetration test is a pretty elaborate one, since the penetration process incorporates a number of tests and repeated tests to spot the existing faults and any vulnerability that can be exploited.