Friday, September 7, 2018

Security Testing


What Is Security Testing?

Security testing is performed to determine whether the data within an information system is protected, and the anticipated functionality is sustained. Security testing assures that the following aspects of data and information are maintained at any cost:
1.     Authentication
2.     Authorization
3.     Availability
4.     Confidentiality
5.     Integrity
6.     Non-repudiation
Security protects applications against external malware and other unanticipated threats that may result in malfunction or exploitation of the application. These unanticipated threats could be either deliberate or unplanned. Security testing tools detect and analyze whether the third-party requests are benign or detrimental.
Studies suggest that security should, in fact, be made a business priority, as businesses of the day are running the show predominantly through digital platforms. Organizations, therefore, need to be able to invest in security, in order to guarantee products and services of utmost quality. There are many highly effective security testing tools that would help achieve the desired security for all the systems within an organization.
Security testing is an integral part of software testing and essentially ascertains that systematic loopholes within an organization are little to none. The more the loopholes, the higher a loss to the organization so as to cope with the weaknesses of the system.
There are various security testing tools used as part of securitytesting methodologies. A few such methodologies are:
1.     Tiger Box Testing: This hacking is usually done on a laptop which has a collection of OSs and hacking tools. This testing helps penetration testers and security testers to conduct vulnerabilities assessment and attacks.
2.     Black Box Testing: Testers are authorized to perform testing on everything about the network topology and the technology.
3.     Grey Box Testing: Partial information is given to the testers about the system, and it is a hybrid of white and black box models.

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