Web Application Penetration Testing
Experience robust, manual web application penetration testing, executed by Cyberflame's seasoned and certified penetration testers.
Exploring Web Application Penetration Testing
Web application penetration testing is a specialized form of testing aimed at discovering security vulnerabilities and possible exploitation points within your web applications.
Significance of Web Application Testing
Web application testing is a critical component of your cybersecurity strategy as it uncovers weaknesses within a web application, empowering your organization to mitigate vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by malicious actors.
Varieties of Web Application Penetration Testing
Primarily, there are two forms of web app penetration testing: internal and external.
Internal Penetration Testing
Focusing on potential vulnerabilities within the organization's firewall, this testing concentrates on web apps hosted on the intranet. Ethical hacking is implemented using invalid credentials to gain system access, helping to evaluate the likely damage and course of a potential attack.
External Penetration Testing
This form of penetration testing targets external attacks on web applications hosted on the internet. Our ethical hackers simulate external attacks, utilizing the IP address of the target system, both front and back-end servers, and other internet-hosted web apps via methods like blind testing, double-blind, and targeted testing.
Why Choose Cyberflame's Web Application Penetration Testing Services?
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In today's interconnected world, businesses heavily depend on web applications, APIs, and mobile applications to facilitate their operations. Be it customer-facing applications handling sensitive data or internal web products essential for daily tasks; web apps are integral to business functionality. Unfortunately, this reliance often leaves a door ajar for potential cyber attacks, especially when developers use open-source components and plugins for building these apps.
While vulnerability scans can identify known weaknesses, web application penetration testing gauges how well your applications can withstand an actual unauthorized user attack. Unearth the weaknesses in your application before they can be exploited.
Contrasting Vulnerability Scans and Web App Penetration Testing
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Vulnerability scans use automated tools to identify vulnerabilities in network-connected devices, like routers, firewalls, servers, applications, and switches. While these scans help locate weaknesses, they might not present a complete picture of web application risks.
Web app penetration testing, on the other hand, is more targeted. Instead of just identifying threats, it relies on the skill and experience of ethical hackers who simulate cyber attackers' deliberate actions or inadvertent user behaviors that might expose sensitive information. They identify the most susceptible entry points into your web application's core.
As technology advances and our reliance on the internet increases, the frontier of possible attack vectors continues to expand. Cyber attackers navigate from one site to another, hunting for that single security loophole to exploit. Web application penetration testing ideally should be conducted before a production release, but sometimes, due to schedule constraints, applications are deployed without proper security testing, leading to potential vulnerabilities.
Cyberflame's Web App Penetration Testing Solutions
Our cybersecurity experts at Cyberflame possess the requisite knowledge and experience to fortify your web app's resilience against both internal and external security threats. Partnering with us allows you to:
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Discover security vulnerabilities in your web environments
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Identify potential real-world risks to your organization
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Plan a comprehensive roadmap for addressing and fixing any identified application security flaws
Our penetration testers have rich backgrounds in software development. They understand the common pitfalls developers can encounter, hence, they go beyond merely trying to break a web app. Our security professionals leverage their experience to unearth critical issues before they escalate into a security crisis.
Common Vulnerabilities
We address several of the top OWASP security risks to web applications, including SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Broken Authentication and Poor Session Management, Security Misconfiguration, Insecure Deserialization, XML External Entities Injection (XXE), Broken Access Controls, and Vulnerable Components.
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In the course of the testing process, our penetration testers operate as ethical hackers, aiming to help organizations mitigate the accumulation of technical debt due to past mistakes. Our ultimate goal is to instill confidence in your business's cybersecurity posture, bolstered by the robust protection offered by Cyberflame professionals.
Our Web App Security Methodology
Our team of security experts has been pioneering advancements in this field since 2014. We employ a rigorous methodology for Web Application Penetration Testing, honed over years of experience and adapted to the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape.
Deliverables
At Cyberflame, we provide our Web Application Penetration Testing services with a dedicated client portal, on-demand tools, comprehensive report delivery, and free remediation testing within six months of testing for up to six findings.
Upon the completion of each web app penetration test, we ensure that you receive a complete risk analysis, along with guidance on remedying discovered vulnerabilities to improve your security posture and prevent further exploitation by hackers. Our penetration testers will deliver an analysis of the current state of the assessed web application security controls in the form of a comprehensive report.
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Our reports include:
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The objective of the engagement, the project's scope, and our approach
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Identification of effective security controls
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Tactical solutions to instantly lower your network security risk
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Strategic recommendations for mitigating and preventing similar issues from recurring that could lead to a severe data breach
Our report deliverable will further include an in-depth analysis and recommendations to assist your technical staff in understanding the underlying risks and remediation recommendations:
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A technical description and classification of each vulnerability
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Anatomy of exploitation, including steps taken and proof in the form of screenshots
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The business or technical risk inherent in the vulnerability
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Vulnerability classification that describes the risk level as a function of vulnerability impact and ease of exploitation
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A technical description of how to mitigate the vulnerability