Security Testing
Security testing is the primary job of ethical hackers. These tests might be configured in such way that the ethical hackers have no knowledge, full knowledge, or partial knowledge of the target of evaluation (TOE). No Knowledge Tests (Blackbox) No knowledge testing is also known as blackbox testing. Simply stated, the security team has no knowledge of the target network or its systems. Blackbox testing simulates an outsider attack as outsiders usually don’t know anything about the network or systems they are probing. The attacker must gather all types of information about the target to begin to profile its strengths [...]
Why You Need To Secure Your Web Applications
Website security is possibly today’s most overlooked aspect of securing the enterprise and should be a priority in any organization. Increasingly, hackers are concentrating their efforts on web-based applications to obtain access and to misuse control sensitive data such as customer details, credit card numbers and proprietary corporate data. Hackers already have a wide repertoire of attacks that they regularly launch against organizations including SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting, Directory Traversal Attacks, Parameter Manipulation (e.g.,URL, Cookie, HTTP headers, HTML Forms), Authentication Attacks, Directory Enumeration and other exploits. Moreover, the hacker community is very close-knit; newly discovered web application intrusions are [...]
Categories: Concept, Internet Security, Security Testing Tags: auditing, Penetration testing, software flaws, Vulnerability, Website security
