What are the benefits of web application penetration testing?
- There are several key benefits to incorporating web application penetration testing into a security program.
- It helps you satisfy compliance requirements. Pen testing is explicitly required in some industries, and performing web application pen testing helps meet this requirement.
- It helps you assess your infrastructure. Infrastructure, like firewalls and DNS servers, is public-facing. Any changes made to the infrastructure can make a system vulnerable. Web application pen testing helps identify real-world attacks that could succeed at accessing these systems.
- It identifies vulnerabilities. Web application pen testing identifies loopholes in applications or vulnerable routes in infrastructure—before an attacker does.
- It helps confirm security policies. Web application pen testing assesses existing security policies for any weaknesses.
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- JavaScript
- MySQL
- PHP
- Authentication/Authorization
- JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
- HTML Injection Vulnerability
- IFrame Injection
- SMTP In-Depth
- HTTP Parameter Pollution (HPP)
- OS Command Injection Vulnerability
- Code Injection Vulnerability
- Server-Side Include (SSI) Injection Vulnerability
- SQL Injection Vulnerability
- Email Spoofing
- Captcha Bypass
- Weak Passwords & Password Attacks
- Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Vulnerability
- Clickjacking (X-Frame-Options) Vulnerability
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
- Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR) Vulnerability
- Host Header Injection Vulnerability
- Insecure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Vulnerability
- File Inclusion Vulnerability
- Insecure Deserialization Vulnerability
- XML External Entities (XXE) Vulnerability
- postMessage Vulnerabilities
- WebSocket Vulnerabilities
- File Upload Vulnerabilities
- WordPress Security
- GraphQL