Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing of Web Application

Abstract

As Internet usage is rising day by day security has become a vital facet to the Internet world. Security of the website in today's world is very important. Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing are two different vulnerability testing. These tests have different strengths and are frequently combined to get a more complete vulnerability analysis. Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessments execute two different tasks, usually with distinctive outcomes, within the same area of application. For any organization, proper working of security arrangement is checked by Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing. Web applications vulnerable to attacks like Session exploitation, Cross-Site Scripting, SQL injection, Cross Site Request Forgery, Buffer over Flows, and Security Misconfiguration etc. are described in Open Web Application Security Project Top 10. The manual penetration test or automatically penetration test can be done, which depends upon vulnerabilities. Comparison is made between these two tests.