Web Application Penetration Testing
Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities in your web applications that could otherwise be exploited.
What is web application penetration testing?
Web application penetration testing is the process of identifying and remediating existing vulnerabilities within your web applications through controlled, simulated attacks. Testing your web applications secures these against potential threats by uncovering weaknesses that could be exploited by malicious actors.
Attack tactics are ever-evolving, often targeting vulnerabilities in web applications as entry points to compromise your sensitive data. Web application penetration testing involves evaluating the security of an application by examining its code, architecture, and configurations, and then providing recommendations for improving its security posture.
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Web App Penetration Testing Methodology
Citation Cyber uses the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) methodology combined with extensive expertise in offensive security for conducting web application penetration testing. The active test is split into 10 categories that focus the common root causes of web application vulnerabilities.
- Broken access control: Ensuring all user access control restrictions are correctly configured to prevent unauthorised users to view, modify, or delete company data.
- Cryptographic failures: Improving the encryption of sensitive data, including passwords and personal information, to maintain adequate protection.
- Injection attacks: Validating user program inputs to prevent malicious attacks including code injection.
- Insecure design: Security risks often occur in the design phase, making the web application vulnerable to attacks.
- Security misconfigurations: Reviewing and correcting web application’s security configurations to minimise exploitation.
- Vulnerable and outdated components: Updating and validating any third-party software, frameworks, and libraries used in the web application development.
- Identification and authentication failures: Implementing robust authentication methods, including multi-factor authentication, to improve the web application’s authentication process.
- Software and data integrity failures: Ensuring the integrity through digital signatures and secure updates protects web applications from tampering.
- Security logging and monitoring failures: Implementing effective logging and monitoring of security incidents, allowing businesses to understand existing, and emerging, cyber threats.
- Server-side request forgery: Validating and sanitising user-supplied URLs to prevent malicious attacks.
The web application penetration testing service offers a thorough evaluation of your application’s security posture. Our methodology integrates the OWASP Top 10 with the extensive industry experience from our team of UK-based, CREST-certified security consultants. Therefore, we may discover alternative vulnerabilities that could otherwise be exploited by attackers, allowing for the simulation of various threat scenarios tailored to your specific needs.
Specialists In Testing Applications
- WordPress Website Penetration Testing
- Magento Website Penetration Testing
- Web Services (APIs) Penetration Testing
- Software Penetration Testing
- Mobile Applications Penetration Testing
CREST-Certified Penetration Testing Service
For our Penetration Testing Services, we are proud to have a team of experts with a variety of accreditations across the cyber security service provision. Namely, these accreditations include CREST, CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker), CHECK (Qualified Team Leaders), GWAPT (GIAC Web Application Penetration Testers) and CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) consultants.
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