WebApplication Penetration Testing

Penetration testing is the process of testing a software by trained security experts (aka penetration testers or ethical hackers) in order to find out its security vulnerabilities. The objective of carrying out such a test is to strengthen the security vulnerabilities which the software may contain so that they don’t get easily exploited (or taken advantage of) by the hacking community.

In the case of web application penetration testing, the software being tested is a web application stored in a remote server which clients can access over the internet. Web applications are obviously easy targets for hackers and therefore it is imperative for the developers of these web applications to frequently carry out penetration testing to ensure their webapplications stay healthy – away from various security vulnerabilities and malware attacks.

In this blog, let’s take a look at some of the elements every web application penetration testing checklist should contain, in order for the penetration testing process to be really effective.