At Intellisec Solutions, we believe that the best defense is a good offense. Our web application security team can assess your application from all angles and make you aware of any security flaws that could lead to data leak or other compromises. Through our services, we offer you the foresight necessary to strengthen your web application and safeguard your digital assets.
The internet of today is much more than websites. Sophisticated web applications are commonplace, and millions rely on information systems as diverse as financial planning and medical care. The most sensitive information of your organization, employees, and customers is present in these systems across the web. Web applications grow in complexity every passing year, and the threat of unforeseen security flaws always exists. Security researchers are finding new methods of exploiting these methods every day. Hence, the risk assessment of web applications has become the need of the hour.
Intellisec Solutions’s methodology follows the industry’s best practices such as the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Testing Guide (V4.0) and Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800-115. Since these standards are generic, Intellisec Solutions goes beyond them by fusing its advanced expertise and experience, along with project management documentation expertise, to offer the best help.
The following steps are the backbone of our methodology.
During our pre-engagement process, we run your web application through rigorous rounds of testing. Doing so ensures that we understand your core competencies and crucial data. Using numerous OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) tools and techniques, we collect as much information as possible regarding your technical infrastructure. Gathering this information is a critical step towards building intelligence about the operating conditions of the organization. Some targets may include:
Since every web application serves a unique functionality and is vulnerable to a range of risks, we use thorough penetration testing checklists to list risks of security attacks. Subsequently, we model secure threats before initiating any security assessments.
After identifying potential threats, we develop a security test plan to assess if these threats can be exploited. A comprehensive view of the web application threat scenario including user privileges, critical transactions, and security data is obtained with the help of domain and platform-based tests.
Intellisec Solutions incorporates an array of automated scripts and tools, among other tactics, during a more advanced information gathering phase. Our engineers critically examine all potential attack vectors. The research from this stage is the foundation that decides the approach in the next phases. A few critical aspects of these assessments are:
Some of the most critical security loopholes take place due to flaws in business logic employed in web applications. Such weaknesses, in tandem with standard security threats, can prove to be immensely dangerous to your organization. To prevent this, we run comprehensive tests on your business logic and ensure that they do not adversely affect your security.
Another major assessment area is the security of the cloud or on-premise infrastructure hosting your application. We support you by helping determine its security level and which mitigations you can put in place for a more secure infrastructure.
Reporting and documentation are critical aspects of any penetration testing because only well-organized testing can help the management in making data-driven decisions. In this regard, each report is customized to the specific scope of the assessment and risk as per your organization. Reports are comprehensive, with due technical details, but intuitive to read. Remediation strategy for each vulnerability is provided as well. Some of the elements of the reports are:
A unique aspect of Intellisec Solutions’s web application security assessment is the combination of manual and automated application penetration testing. Several subtle security flaws are often not picked up by automated vulnerability scanners. To ensure a thorough probe, Intellisec Solutions’s security team assessors leverage their experience to understand the context of your web application and manually go about exploiting its logic. This approach ensures that we deliver assessments that are more relevant to your user-base and individual security needs.
As an extra value-add, Intellisec Solutions offers remediation testing services. In this service, we revisit an assessment of your Web applications after exposed vulnerabilities have been patched. We retrace our previous test to ensure there are no gaps found in the re-test and remedies have been implemented. Any bypasses of the mitigations added are identified too. We also update our previous assessment to reflect the improved state of the system.
