Web Application Penetration Testing
Secure your web applications against cyber threats
Our web application penetration testing services aim to identify and rectify vulnerabilities in your web applications, regardless of their hosting environment - be it cloud-based or built on conventional 3-tier architectures, or any other configuration.
What You Get
Rhyno's ethical hackers ensure that businesses gain the utmost advantage from security audits and penetration tests by offering:
- Executive Summary: Outlining risk management implications
- Technical Report: Detailling vulnerabilities in your web application
- Recommendations: Walkthrough on how to fix identified vulnerabilities
- Expert Guidance: Actions plan to improve your web application security
- Attestation: To meet compliance requirements (SOC2, ISO27001, etc.)
Why Web Application Penetration Testing?
Web Application Penetration Testing focuses on fortifying your web applications against cyber dangers. Through emulating actual hacking methods, we detect weaknesses in your application and provide practical solutions for security enhancements.
Each web application's unique design can inadvertently introduce security gaps. These gaps might enable attackers to exploit your web application and gain access to confidential data.
Regularly updating your web application is vital, but each update or new feature could introduce fresh security risks. It's important to maintain a balance between updates and thorough security evaluations.
As industry standards evolve, cybersecurity regulations often become more stringent. In many cases, these standards now mandate penetration testing to ensure your web application adheres to the most current security protocols
Cyber threats are in a state of constant advancement, growing more complex by the day. Penetration testing is essential for assessing how effectively your web application can resist these ever-changing threats.
Discover and rectify weaknesses to lower the likelihood of breaches, thereby preventing legal repercussions and harm to your reputation. Enhance development processes to incorporate security from the beginning, resulting in safer web applications.
We employ a mix of automated and comprehensive manual penetration testing methods. Our testing framework is grounded in the OWASP standards, enabling us to pinpoint vulnerabilities specific to each application.
The OWASP Top 10 serves as a key guide for developers and web application security, outlining the top critical security threats to web applications. It is widely recognized and agreed upon in the industry.
- Broken Access Control: Inadequate restrictions on what authenticated users are allowed to do.
- Cryptographic Failures: Weaknesses in encryption that lead to sensitive data exposure.
- Injection: Malicious code inserted by attackers into a program, often via input fields.
- Insecure Design: Flaws in software architecture that leave it vulnerable to attack.
- Security Misconfiguration: Incorrect security settings, often due to default configurations being used.
- Vulnerable and Outdated Components: Using outdated or vulnerable software parts, like libraries or frameworks.
- Identification and Authentication Failures: Weaknesses in verifying the identity of users, leading to unauthorized access.
- Software and Data Integrity Failures: Inadequate protection against unauthorized changes to software and data.
- Security Logging and Monitoring Failures: Inadequate tracking and logging of security-related events, hindering detection of attacks.
- Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF): An attack where the server is tricked into performing unauthorized actions.
Our Web Penetration Testing Process
Planning and Reconnaissance
- Determining the test's scope and objectives, including the systems to test and methods to use.
- Collecting data (like network and domain information, mail servers) to understand the target's functioning and potential weak points.
Scanning
Evaluating the target application's reaction to intrusion attempts, typically through:
- Static Analysis: Examining the application's code to predict behavior during execution. These tools can review all code at once.
- Dynamic Analysis: Analyzing the application's code while it is active, offering a real-time perspective of its performance.
Gaining Access
Employing web application attacks (e.g., cross-site scripting, SQL injection, backdoors) to find vulnerabilities. The aim is to exploit these weaknesses, possibly through privilege escalation, data theft, or intercepting traffic, to gauge the potential damage.
Maintaining Access
Testing if the vulnerability allows for a prolonged presence in the system, mimicking advanced persistent threats that often stay hidden for extended periods to steal critical data.
Analysis
Compiling the penetration test outcomes into a report that includes:
- Exploited vulnerabilities.
- Accessed sensitive data.
- Duration of undetected presence in the system.
- Security teams analyze this data to adjust WAF settings and other security measures, fixing vulnerabilities and bolstering defenses against future attacks
Reporting
Documenting and presenting comprehensive findings, including:
- Detailed descriptions of identified vulnerabilities and how they were exploited.
- Impact assessment of the vulnerabilities on the organization.
- Recommendations for remediation and improving security posture.
- Prioritization of issues based on risk level and potential impact.
- A roadmap for future security measures and tests.
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