Application Vulnerability and Penetration Test
Why Application Vulnerability and Pentest?
No one on the web is immune from security risks. In today’s race to build cutting-edge business solutions, web applications are developed and deployed with a minimalist attention to security threats. No wonder why the number of corporate websites vulnerable to hacking is increasing at a rapid pace. Prominent sites from regulated industries like government, financial services, retail and healthcare are probed daily. Needless to say, the consequences of a security breach are devastating: damage to credibility, loss of revenues, legal liabilities as well as the loss of customer loyalty.
ThreatFalcon Application VAPT Approach
ThreatFalcon conducts the assessment on your web application by using industry-standard tools and also use manual techniques used to identify the vulnerabilities and exploit them to gain access to your assets which the automated scanning process missed.
What we test for
ThreatFalcon team has found that the most-effective assessments take a testing approach that covers, but is not limited to, common application security vulnerabilities such as those outlined in the Open Web Application Security Project’s (OWASP) “Top 10 Application Security Risks.” Here is a brief overview of each of the 10 vulnerability categories:
Injection Flaws. Injection flaws are very prevalent, particularly in legacy code. The most widely recognised injection flaw is referred to as SQL Injection (SQLi).
Broken Authentication. Because many of the authentication and session management functions are often improperly implemented, they frequently have flaws in areas such as logout, password management, timeouts, remember me, secret question, account update, etc.
Sensitive Data Exposure. One of the most common flaws is simply not encrypting sensitive data. When cryptography is employed, weak key generation and management, and weak algorithm usage are common, particularly weak password hashing techniques.
XML External Entities (XXE). Older or poorly-configured XML processors evaluate external entity references within XML documents, allowing external entities to be used for disclosing internal files, internal file shares, internal port scanning, remote code execution, or even denial of service attacks.
Broken Access Control. Because restrictions for authenticated users are not always properly enforced, attackers can exploit flaws to access unauthorized data or functionality.
Security Misconfiguration. Security misconfiguration is the most commonly observed issue and can happen at any level of an application stack and are easy areas of access for hackers.
Cross Site Scripting (XSS). XSS flaws occur when an application includes user-supplied data in a page sent to the browser without properly validating or escaping that content.
Insecure Deserialization. Insecure deserialization can lead to remote code execution, but even if not, it can be used to perform replay, injection, and privilege escalation attacks.
Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities. Virtually every application has these issues because most development teams don’t focus on ensuring their components/libraries are up to date.
Insufficient Logging & Monitoring. Coupled with missing or ineffective integration with incident response, insufficient logging and monitoring can allow attackers further entry into a system where more damage can be done.
ThreatFalcon Methodology for VAPT
1. Scoping
2. Reconnaissance
3. Discovery and Scanning
The organization being tested will provide ThreatFalcon VAPT team with general information about in-scope targets.
The reconnaissance stage is crucial to thorough security testing because penetration testers can identify additional information that may have been overlooked, unknown, or not provided.
The information gathered is used to perform discovery activities to determine things like ports and services that were available for targeted hosts and much more.
4. Vulnerability Assessment
5. Exploitation
6. Final Analysis and Review
A vulnerability assessment is conducted in order to gain initial knowledge and identify any potential security weaknesses that could allow an outside attacker to gain access to the environment or technology being tested.
This is where the action happens!
After interpreting the results from the vulnerability assessment, our expert penetration testers will use manual techniques, human intuition, and their backgrounds to validate, attack, and exploit those vulnerabilities.
When you work with ThreatFalcon on security testing, we deliver our findings in a report format.
This comprehensive report includes narratives of where we started the testing, how we found vulnerabilities, and how we exploited them. It also includes the scope of security testing, testing methodologies, findings, and recommendations for corrections.
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