Application Penetration
Testing
Applications serve as the primary interface between your organization and its customers, partners, and employees. Our Application Penetration Testing service goes beyond automated scanning to actively exploit security weaknesses in your web applications, mobile apps, and custom software, validating which vulnerabilities pose genuine risks to your business and sensitive data.
Why Application Penetration Testing Matters
Applications frequently contain security flaws that automated tools alone cannot effectively identify or validate. With application attacks accounting for over 40% of data breaches and the average cost of an application security incident exceeding $4 million, thorough application penetration testing is essential for:
Validating Real-World Exploitability
By determining which vulnerabilities can actually be leveraged to compromise your applications, access sensitive data, or disrupt business operations.
Meeting Regulatory Compliance Requirements
For frameworks like PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and GDPR that specifically require penetration testing as a distinct security validation activity.
Identifying Business Logic Flaws
Identify issues that automated tools cannot detect, including authorization bypasses, workflow circumvention, and other complex vulnerabilities unique to your applications.
Providing Clear Evidence
Validate security investments by demonstrating exactly how vulnerabilities could impact your business, helping prioritize remediation efforts based on actual risk.
Uncovering Attack Chains
Identify vulnerabilities that combine multiple lower-severity issues to create critical security exposures, revealing how sophisticated attackers could target your specific environment.
Our Expert Approach
Our comprehensive application penetration testing methodology combines automated and manual techniques:
Application Mapping & Discovery
We begin by thoroughly understanding your application’s functionality, architecture, and business purpose. This includes identifying all inputs, authentication mechanisms, roles, workflows, data handling processes, and integration points to build a complete model of the application’s attack surface.
Vulnerability Identification
Using a combination of automated scanning and manual inspection, we identify potential security weaknesses in the application. This includes testing for OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, examining custom functionality for unique flaws, and analyzing the application’s handling of sensitive data throughout its lifecycle.
Manual Exploitation
Our security experts attempt to exploit discovered vulnerabilities using the same techniques employed by malicious actors. This critical step confirms which vulnerabilities are genuinely exploitable and determines their true severity based on real-world impact rather than theoretical risk.
Business Logic Testing
We evaluate your application’s business processes and workflows for logical flaws that bypass security controls. This includes testing for authorization issues, insufficient validation of business rules, transaction tampering, and other logic-based vulnerabilities that automated tools cannot detect.
Attack Chaining & Impact Analysis
Going beyond individual vulnerabilities, we identify how multiple weaknesses could be combined to create sophisticated attack paths. This approach demonstrates the maximum potential impact to your business and provides a realistic view of how advanced attackers would target your application.
Remediation Guidance & Validation
You receive detailed documentation including an executive summary highlighting business risks, technical findings with reproduction steps, and prioritized remediation guidance. Each vulnerability is documented with screenshots, exploitation evidence, and specific recommendations tailored to your development environment.
Multiple Service Options
Security Sound Solutions to Support Your Path to Success
Application Assessment
A comprehensive security assessment of a single application, providing detailed technical findings and remediation guidance. This service includes testing for common and advanced vulnerabilities, business logic flaws, and authentication/authorization issues, with clear documentation and remediation support.
Enterprise Assessment
For complex or high-risk applications processing sensitive data. This in-depth assessment includes everything in the standard test plus additional focus on sophisticated attack scenarios, data protection mechanisms, session management, and secure implementation of cryptographic controls.
SDLC Integrated Testing
Designed for organizations with ongoing development cycles. This program provides security testing at critical points in your SDLC, helping identify and address vulnerabilities earlier when remediation is less costly. Includes developer training, secure coding guidance, and trend analysis across assessments.
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