What Is Web Application Penetration Testing?

by Nataliia Vasylyna | October 14, 2016 5:57 am

Every today’s Internet user worries about his personal data safety. The same situation takes place in a software testing company, when it is about the client’s requirements and the safety of the admin information.

Software testing in all its forms, e.g. user interface testing, mobile testing[1], load testing, manual or automated testing, is focused on the positive result – ideally, software title free of bugs. Besides functional or visual defects, the software may have severe problems with the access to the admin panel and the personal information of the users.

In this case, a tester usually performs security testing[2]. This type of checking includes some techniques, one of which is penetration testing.

Penetration testing[3] is an attempt of getting access to admin data through the simulation of the unauthorized internal/external attacks. It is fulfilled in a real time and helps to understand the level of data insecurity and the end users’ personal information availability for the third-party people.

This test technique may be performed for two reasons: internal pen testing and external pen testing, depending on the hacker’s personal proximity to the system.

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Endnotes:
  1. mobile testing: http://mobile.qatestlab.com/
  2. security testing: https://qatestlab.com/services/Is-Your-Software-Secure/security-testing/
  3. Penetration testing: https://qatestlab.com/services/is-your-software-secure/penetration-testing/
  4. How Can Cookies Threat Web Software Security?: https://blog.qatestlab.com/2015/04/17/how-can-cookies-threat-web-software-security/
  5. 7 Types of Security Testing: https://blog.qatestlab.com/2020/09/07/security-testing-types/
  6. New job title: The Ethical Hacker on Artificial Intelligence: https://blog.qatestlab.com/2020/04/13/ethical-hacker-artificial-intelligence/

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