Web Application Penetration Testing

Owing to the ubiquity, ease of access, cost effectiveness and provision of service, the Web Application has emerged as a driving force of adoption. With the advent of web 2.0 and web 3.0 technologies, web application has evolved to be more advanced, quicker in response times than that of desktop applications. Also, the user interfaces are getting more and more spontaneous and sophisticated. Today Web Applications are more functional and flexible, which increases their value to business operations.

Exposing systems to the internet increases the risk that security weaknesses in those systems will be leveraged to compromise the system or the underlying data. It is therefore necessary to examine the actual business risks this brings, understand the basic difficulties in implementing “secure systems”, and adequately test internet applications for security, as well as functionality and load performance, before they are exposed to the net.