What is Web Application Penetration Testing?

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Web application penetration testing shows the security issues in a web application and its supporting infrastructure to protect web applications before and after deployment.

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Our experts simulate attackers aiming to compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability of a targeted system and other OWASP Top 10 risks. We also go further to identify vulnerabilities like business logic flaws that only manual, expert-led testing can reveal.

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In the last 24 months, 57% of midmarket and enterprise organisations experienced web application and/or API attacks exploiting lesser-known vulnerabilities. SECFORCE web application pen testing services mimic real threats to find these risks.

Outcomes of Web Application Penetration Testing

Safe Web App Deployment

Safe Web App Deployment

Verified and reproducible findings mean that web application pen testing is the only way to know when it is fully safe to push a web application to production.

Business Risk Reduction

Business Risk Reduction

Prevent breaches, ransomware, downtime and reputational loss by improving the resilience of an app and its surrounding infrastructure.

Compliance and Audit Evidence

Compliance and Audit Evidence

Present regulators and auditors with a defensible security narrative, backed by clear evidence of findings and fixes.

Improved Code Quality

Improved Code Quality

Tester guidance on how to fix issues can be applied more broadly to improve the security of your web applications’ code across the whole organisation, beyond a single engagement.

Remedial Advice

Remedial Advice

Expert-level debriefs that aid defect mitigation, plus remedial advice and retesting to confirm that critical attack paths have been closed.

Who can benefit from Web Application Penetration Testing?

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Any organisation deploying new web applications or making architectural or functional changes to its existing environment (such as new authentication models, cloud migrations, or third-party integrations) will benefit from web application pen testing.

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Web application pen testing is also highly recommended before go-live or major releases to confirm that no critical weakness affects the application.

Web Application Penetration Testing Scenarios

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Evaluating web apps with multi-stage workflows to subtly chain business logic sequences that could lead to compromise.

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Testing for potential issues in WordPress, or other CMS systems and integrations.

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Evaluating whether Identity and Access Management systems like Okta or Azure AD have been misconfigured when integrated into enterprise portals.

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Testing single-page React / Angular, including the APIs they rely on.

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The SECFORCE way

SECFORCE gives you a level of assurance far beyond scanning tools or templated web application testing. Our testers think like adversaries, manually pick apart workflows to chain vulnerabilities, and find exploitable flaws in business logic that other testing firms or tools miss.

Our team understands the importance of tight go-live windows and works closely with you during the engagement to ensure on-time release of the builds, based on justified security decisions.

Whatever the outcome, we don’t leave you wondering “what’s next?” We give business leaders a clear understanding of real risks, walk developers and engineers through the process of remediating issues, and offer retesting to confirm closure of findings.

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Web Application Penetration Testing Services

Black-box web application testingBlack-box web application testing

Simulates an attacker with no credentials or knowledge of the application.

Grey-box web application testingGrey-box web application testing

Simulates an attacker with partial information or knowledge of the application, such as credentials for user accounts across various user roles, allowing us to assess the application from different perspectives.

White-box web application testingWhite-box web application testing

The tester has full context of the back-end architecture and implementation details, providing deep coverage and risk assurance.