Overview : Web Application Security Testing
Website security testing is similar to doing a hacker-style “attack” on your web app to find potential security vulnerabilities and see how far an attacker could get. Web applications are vital for business success, and they provide an attractive target for cybercriminals. Website application security testing generally targets proactively identifying vulnerabilities in applications where sensitive user and financial information could be compromised.
Methodology
Web Application Testing is a formal process used to evaluate whether a website or web-based application is operational, secure, usable, and is performing as well as it can across all devices and browsers. The process of testing uses a formal methodology starting with understanding requirements, to planning the testing strategy, to writing detailed test cases, to setting up the environment, and to executing a variety of testing including functional, UI/UX, performance, compatibility, and security testing.
Black box
The quality testing examining the structure, code, & architecture of a software application to assess the input-output flow and also improve the application's design, security, and usefulness is called web application security testing and is sometimes grouped together with internal testing, clear box testing, open box testing .
Grey Box
Gray Box testing, a combination of black box and white box testing, is a software testing method to test the application security of a web application while having minimal knowledge of the core code. It provides a way of searching for and finding contextual errors produced by the poor coding structure of the application.
White Box
The testing explores a software's basic structure, coding, and architecture to check the input-output flow, and it also refines software's design, while validating security and functional aspects of the application. This type of web application security testing is also called internal testing, clear box testing.This is because testers.
Benefits
Why do organizations need Cloud Security Testing?
- Cost Saving
- Adherence to Compliance
- Reduce Outage
- Risk Management
Our Approach
Information Gathering
Information gathering or reconnaissance is one of the key components of web application security testing. The first phase of testing is about collecting as much information on the target application as possible. The types of testing can include anything from search engine reconnaissance, information leaks, app enumeration, fingerprinting the app and in turn identifying the application entry point.plan the attack surface and prioritize areas that could be exploited.
Configuration Management
Understanding the deployed configuration of the server or infrastructure that hosts the web application is almost important as web app security testing. Although there are numerous ways to implement a web application platform, there are some common platform configuration problems such as insecure HTTP methods, old/backup files, etc. which may put the application at risk. For that reason, such areas as HTTP methods, file permissions, and strong transport security were also tested.
Authentication Testing
Authentication is the process of establishing whether the user accessing the system is who they say they are. To test the authentication process is to test for security, and potential weaknesses in the system's authentication procedures. Testing areas include whether an effective lockout mechanism exists to prevent repeated login attempts. Other areas include the capacity of a user to bypass the authentication process, browser cache vulnerabilities that may provide sensitive data to a user.
Session Management
Session management is the term for any controls that govern a user's stateful interaction with the web application. This includes controls for user authentication and simply logging out. Session management attacks include session fixation, cross-site request forgery, cookie (and cookie security) management, session timeout testing, and testing that the logout functionality works properly.
Authorization Testing
Authorization comes after authentication has been successfully conducted. Our pentesting expert will confirm this after verifying that users have authentic credentials associated with a well-defined set of roles and privileges. Common scenarios include insecure direct object reference, privilege escalation, and circumvention of the permission rules, to name just a few. To test permissions effectively.
Data Input Validation
One of the more common vulnerabilities in web applications is not appropriately validating user or environmental input before it is used. This can lead to many serious issues including buffer overflows, cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, interpreter injection, and file system vulnerabilities. Validating data input and using these validations when conducting web application security testing .
Testing for Error - Handling
When conducting web application security testing, we often encounter various error codes that applications or web servers throw off. These errors are revealed through certain requests (manually and with tools). These error codes can provide us information about databases, security flaws, and other technical information about the application. For example, reviewing error codes and stack traces can help penetration testers.
Testing For Business Logic
Detecting the vulnerability referred to as Think Outside the Box, which cannot be detected by a vulnerability scanner, depends on the knowledge and skills of the penetration tester. Additionally, this form of vulnerability is sometimes one of the most difficult to discover as it is application specific. It is also potentially one of the most damaging to the program if exploited. Some examples could include integrity check flaws .
Reporting
At this part of the web application security testing process, our goal is to communicate, rank, and prioritize findings and to provide project stakeholders with a short, actionable report along with detailed findings and artwork. we believe this is the most important part, and we work especially hard to ensure that we have given due diligence to stressing the significance of our findings and ours service.
