Web Application Penetration Testing : Cyberarchy

Application Penetration Testing highlights

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.

Authenticated tests

Analyse the security of your web app from the user perspective. Auditing the admin portal of your web application will reveal vulnerabilities including SQL injection, Session fixation, privilege escalation and Cross-Site request forgery (CSRF)

Unauthenticated tests

The most common type of web application test, our penetration tester will identify vulnerabilities in publicly visible networks that could be exploited by users who do not have access credentials.

API tests

A vital component to include if your web application has an API. Penetration testing a web app’s API uses slightly different tools, and techniques. It is often covered separately from the scope of a web app test.

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.

Application Penetration Testing highlights

Expert collaboration

Collaborate with our consultants and receive expert guidance to create the right security assessment to meet your desired outcomes.

Third-party validation

Use our reports to demonstrate due diligence to your customers, as well as compliance with application security requirements.

Combine with other security services

Bundle or combine our Application Penetration Testing service with any of our other security services to add coverage depth or deeper analysis where required.

Multiple delivery models

Choose from continuous application penetration testing or point-in-time pen tests to meet your unique needs.

The common vulnerabilities we discovered in the past

Accounts Takeover

Subdomain Takeover

Blind XSS to Compromise Admin Panels

Sensitive Info Leakage on Public Repos

Remote Code Executions

Source Code Leakage

Broken Authentication

Broken Session Management

Broken Access Control

Cross-Site Request Forgery

Go beyond an automated scan. Get intelligent insights that strengthen security and improve compliance

Custom tailored assessments

Wherever you fall on the spectrum of time-boxed to comprehensive testing, we always test for the OWASP Top 10 which includes: injection, broken authentication, sensitive data exposure, XML external entities (XXE), and more

Go beyond automated dynamic scanning

Our highly skilled, creative, and experienced Pentesters discover business logic and privilege escalation flaws that can only be found manually. We go beyond automated dynamic scans to ensure critical vulnerabilities don’t fly under the radar

Embed security into the SDLC

In addition to validating the security of an application from a compliance perspective, application penetration tests can be used throughout an Agile or DevSecOps lifecycle to find and fix flaws before they get ‘inherited’ into production. We’ll find vulnerabilities in places you never thought to look.

Assess material impacts to the business

We simulate a real-world attack on the apps and services most critical to your business. With an attacker perspective, you can demonstrate the true business impact of vulnerabilities while also prioritizing the most critical ways you can secure the app environment.

Actionable reports, not canned PDFs

Our high-quality reporting goes above and beyond static risk ratings and generic scoreboards. In addition to being fully customized to your application, your organization, and your desired outcomes, our reports offer actionable security guidance.

Assessments performed by experts

Our consultants have experience testing apps and rely on industry standard methodologies. We do this to ensure breadth of coverage and depth of testing