Brief About Security Testing
Posted By : Manish Kumar | 21-Sep-2017
Why Security Testing is required:
Almost all of the testers are concerned about the functionality how it is working and how it will ease a client/user for a specific task upon completion of which they call that functionality as working functionality.
Some of them also concern about their usability and looks so that user not only use it but also like it, but really very few of them are concerned about the security of that application or web page on which user is using it, which leads an application/business to an unsecured shore and the businessman faces an unexpected loss.
In this manner which makes an application must be secured and it is a duty of a tester to check security level of application that up to which extent application is secure and safe.
Security Testing:
It is a type of testing which determines and verifies if our information system is secured and maintain the breaches as intended.
In this type of testing we are concerned mainly about some of the points:
1. Confidentiality
2. Availability of functionality
3. Authorized access to the functionality
4. Secure Integrity with different modules
5. Secure Integrity with different application
Also, for testing these points we have some types of security testing by which above mentioned can be ensured
Types of Security Testing:
1. SQL injections
2. Cross Site Scripting
3. Security Mis-configuration
4. Cross-site request forgery
5. Sensitive data exposure
6. Known vulnerabilities Components.
7. Unvalidated redirects and forwards.
Hope, this will give a brief idea about security testing to the beginners and clear doubt up to much extent.
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Manish Kumar
Manish is Adaptive and passionate to learn new technical skills, have knowledge of testing and love to play badminton in free time