Web Application Penetration Testing (WAPT)

Security Testing Services

Web Application Penetration Testing (WAPT)

While companies today continue to move more and more of their mission-critical applications and data into web browsers, miscreants have a larger landscape to brew trouble. It is sad but true that many of the advantages that make online applications so convenient also make them incredibly insecure. As a result, hackers are able to use web applications to penetrate enterprises’ network and access private customer databases. The resulting identity and data theft has become a major concern for corporations and consumers alike.

AppLabs’ Web Application Penetration Testing (Advanced) service combats just this. We conduct a comprehensive assessment of the web application that identifies both inherent and potential security risks that might work as entry points for an attacker or hacker. Unlike normal software testing, security assessment of an application does not dictate a clear process flow. Tests to be performed are specific to the application and depend upon several factors like environment, technologies used for application development etc. AppLabs adopts OWASP methodology for Web Application Assessments.  Also, while AppLabs uses a mix of automated and manual approaches, it favours a mostly manual approach for penetration testing where most other vendors rely almost exclusively on automated tools that cannot go as deep into an application or exercise an application as an experienced security engineer.

The sophistication of attacks these days has increased the need for penetration testing. Our penetration testing services understand that the breadth of protection is extremely important, but detection accuracy is also equally critical, because the legitimate traffic needs to flow in while the illegitimate is kept out.