Comprehensive and Customized Penetration Testing For Your Security Needs

Written by OSAblog on Saturday, September 5th, 2009

In the world of computer security, application penetration testing is the most vital concept. Testing is a way used to test a computer system or network to examine possible points where unauthorized access can be attained. The reason of penetration testing is to locate any and all points of vulnerability within the system. Usually, the person doing the penetration is trying to corrupt or hack the system. Whereas the illegal hacker will steal data for the purposes of committing a crime, the ethical hacker will report information about hacking results so web security can be improved.

Assessing the Risk – Application penetration testing can search for security system weaknesses in many ways.
External Penetration Testing – Tests system host and networked systems including software and servers like firewalls.
Application Security Assessment – Test Threats to a system which are coming from proprietary applications and generally includes security testing via interactive access.
Internet Security Assessment – An updated version of external application penetration testing which tests from different points of access.
Wireless Security Assessment – Tests the security of a system where people are able to access it via wireless devices of by some sort of remote access.

Penetration testing could be done regularly but it’s better to use pro-active penetration testing which is 24×7 testing. This is perfect in security testing because it means the system is always being checked for hacking attempts and gives management with the information required to keep security high all the times.

Advantages
You will get lots of benefits from penetration testing, some of them are:
• Vulnerability report representing most likely breach locations
• Testing of all security aspects including router and firewall testing
• Password testing including verifying employees who have selected vulnerable passwords
• Application penetration testing to insure system has not been modified
• Wireless security testing

Penetration testing expertise will perform comprehensive testing processes which make a ferocious attack on the system. The main aim of tester is to gain sensitive and useable company data.

Iviz Security, one of the leading names for applications penetration testing and web application security testing, provides comprehensive and customized security assessment for various sorts of applications that suits your specific requirements.

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