Security testing (or safety testing) is a set of software testing processes carried out to check software product so that to detect and correct defects existing in the system. These tests are associated with user data security, namely:
Integrity. A limited number of users that have access to the data, assessment of damage caused due to the loss of particular data.
Accessibility. It includes the requirements that apply for the resources to be made available to an authorized user, an internal facility or a device. Typically, the more critical the resource is, the more accessible it must be.
Privacy. Keeping certain resources or data secure. The privacy can be defined as restricted access to a resource for particular users, or, in other words, gaining access to a resource according to the use of authentication policies.
Besides providing comprehensive QA consulting services QA consulting companies also offer a broad range of testing services.
In the course of testing, a software tester often acts as a cracker and begins operating the app in a different way:
- By attempting to know a password with the help of external facilities.
- By attacking the system using specialized utilities that help run security scans.
- By applying loads, pressures and deformations in the system (hoping that it will refuse to work for other clients).
- By deliberately making errors, aiming to log in the system while it is being restored.
- By viewing nonsecurity data to find the key to log in the system.
Quality assurance consultants can provide you with the exhaustive information on security testing as well as on the rest of software testing types, offering cost-effective and flexible quality assurance & software testing solutions. While, on this subject, it is possible to highlight several important kinds of security vulnerability:
XSS (Cross-SiteScripting) is a type of software vulnerability (and web apps) that involves execution of malicious scripts on a server-generated page so that to attack the client.
XSRF / CSRF (RequestForgery) is a type of vulnerability that allows using disadvantages of HTPP protocol.
Code injection (SQL, PHP, ASP, etc.) is a kind of vulnerability that lets attackers run the executable code for the purpose of accessing system resources, having unauthorized entry to data or cracking software system.
By incorporating security testing services into your environment of your app, it can be tested for vulnerabilities.
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