What is security testing? How to test the web application
using security testing ?

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What is security testing? How to test the web application using security testing ?..

Answer / balu

using three methods the sequerity is provided

1) Authorazation/Authentication
Allowing valid user and preventing invalid users.....

2) Access Control
Permission to valid user to access user
fctionalitites in software build.

3) Encryption/Dis\cryption
Data conversions in b/n client process and server
provcess to prevent third party avccessing

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What is security testing? How to test the web application using security testing ?..

Answer / anjani dubey

There is different type of methods are using for security
testing
1)Authorization and Authentication:For checking the valid
and invalid user.
2)Access Control:access permission to valid user to access
user functionalities in application.
3)Encryption and Decryption: Data conversions in between
client process and server process to prevent third party
accessing

The above techniques using for security testing for web
application.

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What is security testing? How to test the web application using security testing ?..

Answer / chandu

to provide the security to webapplictions by giving some
algorithms and security certificates, i can give one example.

suppose dotnet application provides itself security to its
applications, like sha algorithm,or we can purchase security
certificates,
testing point of view we can check weather the data is
encrypting or not and one more we should check the URL paths
whether the url is showing our usernames and passwords

thanks
chandu

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What is security testing? How to test the web application using security testing ?..

Answer / gowrisankar.m

Security Testing means, One will perform Testing on the
Security Issues of that Application. i.e checking whether it
is properly secured or not. This can be done in 3 ways.

1) Authorization Testing:
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It means testing the application by entering different User
Names and Passwords. The application should work only
Authorized persons only.

2)Direct URl Testing:
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It means by performing Testing on application by copying
the URL's of some secured pages and past it in the Browser,
then it should not work.

3)Firewall Leakage Testing :
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This testing involves that the User Enters in to the
Application as one level of user and try to Access the
application as another Level of User, then the application
should not work for this actions.

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What is security testing? How to test the web application using security testing ?..

Answer / naren

Security testing means whether our web application is
vulnerable for hackers.
1.X-SS Cross Site Scripting
2.URL Injection

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