The Complete Application Penetration Testing Services
Astra's stellar application penetration testing services are just the thing you need. Identify and remediate flaws quickly. Maintain compliance. Secure applications further.
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What is Application Penetration Testing?
Application Penetration Testing refers to a process that simulates real-world attacks to find weaknesses and secure your apps before the real attackers strike. It involves steps like gathering info, testing, reporting, and fixing issues. This helps users check if hackers can access data, assess email server security, and understand website and server safety.
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Benefits of Application Penetration Testing Services
1. Exposing Vulnerabilities:
Penetration testing helps identify vulnerabilities and weak links in your application by simulating real-world hackers. This allows organizations to proactively address and patch them before they can be exploited by malicious actors enhancing overall security.
2. Compliance and Risk Management:
Regular application penetration testing services ensure your alignment with necessary legal compliance statutes and regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, and more. Non-compliance may lead to potential fines, penalties, and reputational harm.
3. Enhanced Security Posture:
The reports of such pentests serve as your compass to make informed decisions in the allocation of your cybersecurity resources, allowing you to focus on areas that demand the utmost attention, rather than dispersing them thinly across the entire infrastructure.
4. Customer Confidence and Reputation:
Successful remediation of weaknesses identified by an application penetration testing activity allows you to establish a robust foundation for data security facilitating trust building with your customers and partners.
Application Penetration Testing Methodologies
1. Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST):
DAST assesses your applications externally, simulating real-world attacks to identify vulnerabilities exploitable by outsiders. It uses tools to interact with the app, sending inputs and analyzing responses for problems like injection attacks, authentication bypasses, and insecure configurations.
2. Static Application Security Testing (SAST):
SAST examines your source code, byte code, and binary files to uncover security vulnerabilities during app development. It detects insecure coding practices, data leaks, and possible backdoors, often revealing deep-seated issues that dynamic testing might overlook.
3. Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST):
IAST combines DAST and SAST. It monitors your apps in real time through embedded instrumentation to spot vulnerabilities. This provides insights into app behaviour, aiding real-time detection of security issues.
4. Manual Application Penetration Testing:
Skilled security experts manually explore your application to uncover vulnerabilities that automated tools often miss. This method replicates real-world attacks and creatively seeks out intricate security weaknesses, playing a crucial role in your comprehensive app pen testing strategy.
5. Mobile Application Security Penetration Testing:
Mobile application pen testing focuses on vulnerabilities specific to your mobile platforms, including issues related to mobile APIs, data storage, and authentication mechanisms. The higher your adoption rate, the higher is the need of securing your platform.
6. Web Services Penetration Testing:
It involves assessment of security of APIs and web services utilized by your application. Expert pentesters evaluate and check for vulnerabilities like XML/SOAP injection, parameter tampering, and authorization issues in the APIs.
Application Penetration Testing Services That Solves All Issues
Continuous Penetration Testing
Continuously monitor and test your applications to find any vulnerabilities, their impact, and possible mitigative measures through actionable reports.
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Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanning
Deploy Astra’s intelligent vulnerability scanner to detect and identify vulnerabilities based on a large, constantly updated database of known CVEs and intel.
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Vetted Scans
Get VAPT reports with assured zero false positives through expert manual vetting of scan results.
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Compliance Scanning
Make compliance an easy target to achieve with Astra’s compliance-specific scans for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, SOC2, and ISO 27001.
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Integrations
Integrating Astra’s application penetration testing services early into your project pipeline ensures that no pesky vulnerabilities reach production.
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VAPT Certificate
Astra’s publicly verifiable certificates are given after the successful completion of application penetration testing service through fixing vulnerabilities and verification of the fixes made.
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