Web Application Penetration Testing

Web application penetration testing is an essential service for any organization that uses web applications to run its business. It involves simulating realistic attacks against web applications to help you find and fix security vulnerabilities. A web app pen test can help you secure your web applications and prevent data breaches, compliance violations, and reputational damage.

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Our scalable SaaS solution reforms traditional web application penetration testing, harnessing the power of both automated scanning and integrated expert penetration testing to provide business-critical security insights and efficient attack surface management in a single platform.

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REAL-TIME RESULTS

View your web application penetration testing results instantly from day one instead of waiting weeks for your report

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REMEDIATE FASTER

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AUTOMATED RE-TESTING

One-click retesting allows you to validate identified vulnerabilities that you have fixed for added assurance

Our Approach to Web Application Penetration Testing

Web application penetration testing is a comprehensive service that evaluates the security of your web applications from an attacker’s perspective. At Informer, we use a combination of automated and manual techniques to achieve maximum coverage and depth of pen testing. Our automated vulnerability discovery capability scans your web applications for common and emerging vulnerabilities, such as injection, cross-site scripting, broken authentication, and insecure deserialization. Our expert pen testers use their skills and experience to perform manual testing and exploit the vulnerabilities found by the automated tools.

How We Security Test Web Applications

Our web application security testing service follows a systematic process that covers the entire attack surface of your web application and provides you with actionable insights to reduce your security risk:

Web application mapping and analysis: We start by mapping and analyzing your web application’s structure, features, and components from both an unauthenticated and an authenticated perspective.

Attack vector discovery: We then identify and prioritize the potential attack vectors that could compromise your web application’s security.

Vulnerability identification and exploitation: We use various tools and techniques to test and exploit the vulnerabilities associated with each attack vector. We not only check for the OWASP Top 10, but also advise you on how to implement defence-in-depth strategies to harden your web application against future threats.

In-depth dynamic security testing with multiple user levels: We perform dynamic security testing with different user roles and privileges to gain more visibility and coverage of your web application’s functionality. This helps us discover and assess vulnerabilities that could lead to sensitive data exposure.

Instant Access to your Pen Test Results

Our web app penetration testing service uses our SaaS platform to give you a quick and interactive security testing experience. You can fix vulnerabilities as soon as our testers discover them without waiting for the test to end. Use our Jira integration to create tickets automatically for your developers to resolve issues.

Each test comes with a summary that gives you a simple overview of the results. For each vulnerability discovered, you can access:

  • Detailed descriptions of the vulnerability finding with CVSS scores
  • Evidence detailing the location and parameters affected
  • Screenshots uploaded by our penetration testers
  • Remedial action and recommendations
  • References to more information if you need to dig deeper

Each test is stored separately in our platform so you can access detailed findings fast or export them in a PDF report. You can download reports in a number of formats at any time during or after the test.

Technical support

Our penetration testing service does not end with delivering reports. We also provide a thorough debrief session where our pen testers explain the findings and answer your questions. You can invite your security, IT, and development teams to join the session and get expert advice on how to fix the vulnerabilities and improve your web application security.

We're CREST Penetration Testing Accredited

Informer is a CREST Penetration Testing accredited company. We invest in our team to ensure our pen testing methodologies, knowledge, skills, and experience are at the forefront of web application penetration testing.

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Business Logic testing

Logic testing identifies the ways that attackers could defraud you

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Authenticated penetration testing

Security testing from the perspective of registered users

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OWASP Top 10

Our methodology covers the OWASP Top 10 and beyond

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Unpatched software libraries

Analysis of vulnerable software packages in use

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Data in transit security

Test encryption strength, cipher, and protocol configuration

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Wide range of technologies

Single page and traditional web apps tested with

Frequently asked questions

If you have any further questions, get in touch with our friendly team.

How safe is my application while you're testing?

Your application and data will be safe. We would prefer to test using test accounts that can be destroyed after we’ve finished testing.

Can you test using different user privilege levels?

We would recommend that all user levels are tested depending on the size of the user base and the potential damage that could be caused.

Do I need to have a staging environment for testing?

We can test on your production environment for a realistic assessment or test on your staging environment to remove the potential for any disruption. Vulnerabilities discovered in staging can then be retested on the production application.

Is my customer data secure when you are testing?

This depends on the environment that we’re testing. If we are testing an application in production then there could be a risk to the data, but we don’t aim to affect any live information.

What is Web Application Penetration Testing?

Web application pen testing attempts to uncover security vulnerabilities stemming from insecure development practices in the design, coding, and publishing of web applications or a website.

What are the different types of penetration testing?

Common types of pen testing include:

Internal Network Penetration Testing

Pen testing focused on assets within the corporate or the organizational network.

External Network Penetration Testing

Pen testing focused on testing assets and infrastructure that is internet-facing.

Mobile Application Penetration Testing

A penetration testing process that focuses on mobile applications on Android and iOS operating systems to identify authentication, authorization, data leakage, and session handling issues.

Which type of Penetration Testing is best?

There are many penetration testing methodologies and services available.

The most common is vulnerability discovery and assessment.

Vulnerability discovery takes a variety of pen testing approaches to find the weaknesses in a system and identify potential threats.