Web Security Testing : An Important Aspect

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.

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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.