WEB PENTESTING

What is WEB PENTESTING?

Web penetration testing is a process in which a simulated cyber attack against your web application firewall to check for exploitable vulnerabilities.
It is done for web application security.
Firewall is a gate from which hackers can easily enter into the website and start attack on it.
Hackers are doing this to breach on application systems like Application Protocol Interfaces (APIs), Front-end Servers, Back-end Servers etc. so that they can check vulnerabilities like infected inputs, malicious loops etc. that are responsible for injection attacks.

History of web pen-testing

The concept of penetration testing has been around since human beings first began trying to understand their enemies’ thought processes.
Ancient armies all over the world conducted mock battles and games to figure out how other armies might undermine their strategies or get around their forces.
This continued for centuries upon centuries until, inevitably, the tech world got in on the act.

Features of web pen-testing

An easy-to-follow attack path.
It gives a track to the hacker to follow it and attack on that web-page.
Proof of concept for each identified vulnerability.
It has a proof of each vulnerability that hacker identified and also how it works
A threat model approach.
Hackers are threatening to people that he can destroy, slow down the web page.
Specified risk and likelihood-based ratings for each vulnerability.
Web penetration testing has working at some specific risk like slowdown of website, data cannot fetched etc and each vulnerability has a rating so that it gives priority of that vulnerability.
Clear mitigation and recommendations for improvement.
It clears the recommendations of the improvements so that it web penetration testing are exhibiting continuously at a time interval.

Applications of web pen-testing

Detect and arrange security threats.
Meet monitoring necessities and evade penalties.
Circumvent the rate of network downtime.
Protect customer loyalty and company image.
Service disturbances and Security breaches are expensive.
Insights provided by the penetration test can be used to fine-tune your WAF security policies and patch detected vulnerabilities.

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