Web Application Security Testing

Find and reduce risk in today’s ever-evolving web applications.

Web applications often play critical functions for businesses, but they’re also susceptible to many threats. At PNM, we want to find the gaps in your security before an attacker does. That’s why we offer advanced, web application penetration testing.

Web application penetration testing at PNM begins with a vulnerability assessment, where our expert penetration testers utilize multiple tools to gain initial knowledge. A vulnerability assessment is not a replacement for a web application penetration test, though. After interpreting those results, our expert penetration testers will use manual techniques and human intuition to attack those vulnerabilities. After the completion of the web application penetration testing, you will receive a comprehensive report with narratives of where we started the testing, how we found vulnerabilities, and how we exploited them.

Why is web security testing important?

The goal of web security testing is to identify security flaws in Web applications and their setup. The application layer is the primary target (i.e., what is running on the HTTP protocol). Sending different forms of input to a Web application to induce problems and make the system respond in unexpected ways is a common approach to test its security. These “negative tests” look to see if the system is doing anything it wasn’t intended to accomplish.

It’s also essential to realize that Web security testing entails more than just verifying the application’s security features (such as authentication and authorization). It’s also crucial to ensure that other features are deployed safely (e.g., business logic and the use of proper input validation and output encoding). The purpose is to make sure that the Web application’s functions are secure.