Web application penetration testing replicates a hacker’s behaviours and evaluates security vulnerabilities, flaws, and technical misconfigurations that a cyber-attacker would target in your website. Web application penetration testing is used to examine websites and their functionality on publicly exposed networks, typically from the perspective of the end user (unauthenticated testing). This is supplemented by testing for vulnerabilities from the standpoint of an administrator (authenticated) and evaluating website APIs. We will assess the threats to your company and, most importantly, design a thorough plan to increase your cyber resilience.
As a core part of our methodology, we follow the OWASP Testing Guide to test for the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities: injection, broken authentication, sensitive data exposure, XML external entities (XXE), broken access control, security misconfiguration, cross-site scripting (XSS), insecure deserialization, using components with known vulnerabilities, and insufficient logging and monitoring. To get the most out of a penetration testing engagement, we combine all three forms of testing mentioned below.
Methodology
For penetration testing, we have adopted a hybrid approach combined with OWASP methodology. This helps us build custom test cases around the business logic of an application, which varies from application to application. We ensure thorough end-to-end web application security.