Archive for July 24, 2011

Web Application Security Testing

Business-critical applications, sensitive data on customers’ business processes and contain, are at risk from malicious hackers and viruses. To meet cost security measures that lead to the shift away from proprietary client / server applications to web applications that are not only profitable, but to provide a platform for very large supply. The effects of an attack on websites can lead to embarrassing and costly failures within a company. Without adequate web security testing, companies such as eBay strongly for an indefinite period can cause a major loss of the company and the trust of millions of users to be affected. Furthermore, the risk of data theft is always imminent.

Measurements of Web security testing have to protect web applications with little or no impact on operations or changes in system architectures. Without testing, many online software vulnerabilities can be neglected. Each Web application is based on a variety of software components, including operating system, web servers, databases and much more. These vulnerabilities are addressed in safety tests of Web applications.
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