Web
Security Testing
The human lifestyle is
greatly impacted by the advances in internet technologies. Every day we become
more and more dependent on it. It provides effective means for virtual
communication, online banking, shopping, e-learning and many more. But to enjoy
the benefits of web technologies, we first need to make sure that these means
are secure.
Security
testing services plays a vital role in software industry. It is an
approach to determine whether our confidential data on web is secure from
unauthorized access or not. Basically, it is a process to identify the
vulnerabilities of web application caused due to improper coding & designing
of an application. Vulnerabilities allow hackers to retrieve confidential
information from network. Security testing services identifies
holes in the software, and thus, improves the system stability.
Before releasing a web
application, the main purpose of security testing is to discover all
vulnerabilities. But it is not possible to check each and every line of code to
detect weaknesses in an application. The strategy should be such that testing
saves time, effort and should start in the earlier phase of designing. Also
consider all possible events that can occur and the risk associated with these
events.
Some common vulnerability
attacks are authentication, session management, SQL injection and error
handling. Authentication attacks occur on a website if users are allowed to
login with a weak password which is easily guessed by an attacker. Therefore,
password should be a combination of uppercase, lowercase and special characters
of required length.
For Original Article
: http://www.betternetworker.com/articles/view/technology/web-security-testing
Author : Knowledge
Sharing Team
Knowledge
Sharing Team at QA InfoTech is responsible for research on new tools &
technologies for effective Security Testing
Services services across all industry verticals. QA InfoTech (an ISO
9001:2008 & CMMI III certified) is one of the leading QA Testing
Companies with five testing “Centers of Excellence” in the United States and
India. It offers end to end manual and automated software testing services
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