October 13, 2015

Application Penetration Testing

application penetration

Auditing the behaviour and identifying the weak points in applications  is the basic purpose of application penetration testing service. Our web penetration testing services are handled in accordance with OWASP v4 and OSSTMM standards.

At BTPSec, we’re experts at helping companies assess the application security status of applications of all kinds. The most common service requests are like below.

  • Web Application Pentesting
  • Mobile App Pentesting

Web services are commonly used in modern communications. Companies rush from proprietary software to web based software because web services and applications are:

  • Easy to integrate
  • Clientless
  • Reliable
  • As fast as needed
  • Usually requires less firewall rules

Furthermore, mobile communications make up around half of the overall internet communications. The development of mobile technologies and their connectivity is provided by web technologies.

One can observe the inevitable rise of web easily and even observe that any web presence on the Internet attracts traffic from many countries where mobile and internet services are always growing . Hence, your web site, or any other web application that needs to talk with its clients, subscribers, i.e people on the planet, so you can say ‘Hello’ to world. As your target audience, hackers take this message seriously as well. They will investigate your web service or your web application sooner than anyone else, thanks to automatic scanning techniques. Anything of interest will be scanned in detail, explored for vulnerabilities and then used for criminal purposes like: Malware scams, phishing campaigns, brute-forcing, session hijacking, ransomware etc. Your online web resources will be abused to the fullest extend, meaning your server memory, cpu and storage will be an involuntary member of malware advertising, botnets and etc.

You can prevent this by closing all security gaps in your application, framework and your web server. And of course before closing the gaps, you should be aware which of the gaps do exist on your resources. Automatically scanning for vulnerabilities will give you an overview of those vulnerabilities and recommend things to be done in order to eliminate those vulnerabilities. However, automatic vulnerability scans are only a beginning and a guide for a realistic manual test of the white hat hacker. Automatic scanners can only detect errors, bugs and security holes if they were only and only previously defined in a signature. Otherwise , a professional eye of experience is needed to detect logical errors. Additionally, a white hat hacker can judge on the content, importance and priorities better than anybody else when it comes to a real world risk analysis.

Btpsec leverages both commercial/open tools and white hat hacker’s experience while testing the cyber security risk level of your organization.

You are always welcome and encouraged to ask for the references, experience and knowledge level of our professional team of penetration testers.