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What are Web Application Testing Services?

In today’s business environment, few established companies can function without a website.

It is an integral part of business operations and must be informative, accessible and user-friendly. Just as companies have become more digitised and reliant on more complex tech tools, hackers have become more sophisticated. Malicious activities across the web are widespread, and organisations must ensure that websites and web applications are safe and secure.

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Comprehensive tests Timeline

Organisations should consider security for all their applications and develop a security development lifecycle. This means you should conduct security testing throughout the SDLC - especially for apps that deal with critical data.

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Web application security testing methodology

Our web application security testing methodology usually follows these steps:

Identify the business's web applications and their complementary assets. This asset discovery stage will outline which apps will be tested.

Asset discovery stage
Check for outdated software and update them before conducting security testing web applications.

Check for outdated software
Confirm user permissions and roles to ensure the app follows secure access rules.

Confirm user permissions and roles
Check the current security measures to confirm if they are working optimally. These include tools like a firewall, malware scanner and secure sockets layer (SSL).

Review current security measures
Perform a web penetration test for common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), malicious structured query language (SQL) queries and cases of code injection.

Perform a web
app testing
Run configuration tests to check both application and network structure security.

Run configuration tests

Test physical network assets

Test physical network assets for CVEs and specially developed software attacks. This involves testing switches, routers, desktops, printers and servers.
Check design & implementation of apps

Check the design and implementation of business applications and JavaScript loading.
Confirm input validation is functional

Confirm that input validation is in place and functional when accepting user data.
Assess authentication rules

Assess authentication rules and security of session management.
Check web app configurations.

Check for missing or misplaced web application configurations.
Ensure unauthorised access is restricted

Verify if the web applications can allow unauthorised access.

Identify the business's web applications and their complementary assets. This asset discovery stage will outline which apps will be tested.

Check for outdated software and update them before conducting security testing web applications.

Confirm user permissions and roles to ensure the app follows secure access rules.

Check the current security measures to confirm if they are working optimally. These include tools like a firewall, malware scanner and secure sockets layer (SSL).

Perform a web penetration test for common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), malicious structured query language (SQL) queries and cases of code injection.

Run configuration tests to check both application and network structure security.

Test physical network assets for CVEs and specially developed software attacks. This involves testing switches, routers, desktops, printers and servers.

Check the design and implementation of business applications and JavaScript loading.

Confirm that input validation is in place and functional when accepting user data.

Assess authentication rules and security of session management.

Check for missing or misplaced web application configurations.

Verify if the web applications can allow unauthorised access.

Types of Web Application Tests

The three common types of web application testing

This is a test that looks at web apps to check for weak points that hackers can use to break into your system. Because it doesn't involve access to the application’s original source code, you can conduct it frequently.

SAST testing, on the other hand, looks for vulnerabilities in the application’s source code. It offers a more comprehensive outlook on the security posture of web applications.

Imitates a potential hacker’s actions and the steps they may take to breach the web application. Infosec personnel use their own professional experience and knowledge of software penetration tools to find security flaws in the web application.

Testing Vulnerabilities

Common Web Application Vulnerabilities

SQL injection attacks are widespread because SQL language is often used to manage and direct the flow of information in applications. When used to communicate with servers that store critical website data, an SQL injection can allow hackers to change, steal or delete data. This type of attack is especially risky for websites that collect client information such as credit card numbers and login information.

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Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are similar to SQL injection attacks, but it only runs in a user's browser when they visit a hacked website. An XSS attack aims to collect information that a user sends to the website or application. A leakage can damage a company’s reputation, and the company is often unaware there has been a breach until it’s too late.

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Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) forces a user to submit a malicious request to the application. Such actions could be illicit money transfers, so your application must use validation techniques to check the identity of anyone who visits your websites and related applications.

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Clients in over 20 countries have secured their businesses from online threats with our cybersecurity services. Excellent customer support and cost-effective pricing are just a few of the reasons we’ve established long-lasting, highly successful relationships with our varied clients. Read our company testimonials to learn more about our unique capabilities and why so many clients have chosen us as their go-to provider for security solutions.

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Practice Manager - Amsel and Wilkins LLP

Microminder's in depth and broad scope pen testing truly provided us with some valuable insights that uncovered key business risks and highlighted necessary actionable intelligent changes that needed to be implemented within our business to combat any potential cyber-attacks from adversaries and prevent any breaches. This exercise helped us to enhance our cyber security posture and test our system’s resilience. We are quite pleased with our engagement with Microminder.

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Head of Operations - InfinityBlu dental

Microminder's 24/7 managed security services got deployed with such ease and immediately gave us an eagle eye view into our security logs and events, highlighting any indicators of compromise, effectively automated our response and correlated the incidents with full context, thereby triaging and eliminating all false positives. Our team are amazed at the speed and accuracy of Microminder’s Open XDR technology and skilled staff.

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Head of Integrations – Dental Beauty Partners

Our priority is business continuity and security, especially considering our operations across our 30+ practices. Microminder helped us with a tailored managed security services that aligned with our business needs. Their technology is at the forefront of the industry and that allows us to fully put our trust in their cyber security experts. We are glad to have Microminder as an extension of our technology team!

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Security Engineer & solutions consultant – Anonymous

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