Penetration testing is the process of
validating and scanning your web applications for finding threats in the
application. In other words for answering a simple question:
"What could a hacker do to harm my web
application, or organisation’s online applications, out in the real
world?"
Penetration
Test:
Most Effective Penetration test will have a team of high skilled
hackers. Organization purposefully hire those skilled hackers without giving
them a source code or anything ask them to gain the access of your
system/application. Penetration tests can be carried out on IP address ranges,
individual applications, or even as little information as an organization name.
Why
Penetration test is so important:
Hackers can give a real security
personnel experience in dealing with an intrusion. A penetration test should be
done without informing other developers in your organization, and will allow an
organisation to enrich the web security of your organization is truly effective
or not.
It can help us to know where the
organization is lacking in a security, to find a new key holes.
They provide feedback on the most at
risk routes into your company or application. Penetration testers they think
outside of the box, and will try to get into your application by any means
possible, like a real world hackers would. This could help us to identify all
small loop holes in your system security. The reports generated by penetration
tests provide you with feedback on prioritising any future security investment.
A penetration test is one of the best
method to identify threats in the system and it can be imagined much like a
fire drill.
Penetration testing generated reports can be used to help train developers to make our future system security much stronger. If developers can see how an outside attacker broke into an application or part of an application they helped develop, they will be more motivated to improve their security education and avoid making similar errors in the future.
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