A Guide to Security Testing

Security is more important than ever, especially with so many online resources and applications. When developing an application, gathering information on security is a top priority for us at ISU Corp.

Our security audit is an analytical approach to measure the informative security assessment for your application. We will perform vulnerability scans, and carefully examine the system configuration and settings, and analyze the network and communication.

When analyzing your application, we take into account what's already been completed with the IT environment when we do an information security audit.

It’s challenging for businesses to stay ahead of the ever-evolving security threats. As a safeguard, it’s important to be prepared and have a Disaster Recovery Runbook in the event a breach occurs. Security hacks are stressful for everyone involved, but a DR runbook can help any IT team stay calm and organized.

Our goal is to understand your application’s information system deficiencies. To do this we will start off by verifying the security level of your Servers, Operating Systems & Databases, Business Applications, Software, and Network & Communications.

We will track any and all of the deficiencies that are found, and then we will come up with recommendations to improve the deficiencies.

By utilizing our testing services, you have the ability to move forward confidently knowing that your applications:

  • Are protected from both known and unknown vulnerabilities

  • The data for them is safe and difficult to hack

  • Are in compliance with security regulations

 

Now, here is the security testing process:

At ISU Corp, our professional Web Application Security Testing Service is used to assist you in recognizing the vulnerabilities. The application testing is completed offsite for external faced web applications, but we will apply identical security properties for all applications that we develop.

Our security testing methodologies were discovered by the Open Web Application Security Project and they include the following processes:

  • Information retrieval

  • Arranged management testing

  • Business logic testing

  • Authentication and authorization testing

  • Session management testing

  • Data validation

  • Denial of service testing

  • Web services testing

  • Ajax testing

 

Regardless of how diligent the testing processes are, new threats and attack vectors will always find a way into your software. Here at ISU Corp, we use our best efforts to put energy and resources into gathering the most recent knowledge for designing effective methods to optimize our security testing services.

We will test for:

  • Injection

  • Cross-site scripting (XSS)

  • Broken authentication and session management

  • Insecure direct object references

  • Cross-Site request forgery (CSRF)

  • Security misconfiguration

  • Insecure cryptographic storage

  • Failure to Restrict URL Access

  • Insufficient transport layer protection

  • Unvalidated redirects and forwards

 

At ISU Corp, we will also provide access to in-depth vulnerability assessments that closely examine every open port, host, and services that have access to the Web. The vulnerability tests will also map the network architecture to check that the network devices are protected from hacker attacks.

Reliant on what’s discovered in the process of the vulnerability test, we will determine and report your network’s security position.

Our diligent research teams at ISU Corp strive to validate the security of your websites prior to potential issues. Our goal is to be your trusted partner for all your web application testing and assessment requirements.

 

Reach out to one of our experts at ISU Corp to get started, or if you have any additional inquiries about security testing!