From the course: Introduction to Pen Testing for Cybersecurity Professionals

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Testing the website

Testing the website

From the course: Introduction to Pen Testing for Cybersecurity Professionals

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Testing the website

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- [Instructor] A major breach because of a vulnerable website has many implications including the potential for a complete loss or compromised sensitive data. In this segment, learn what's involved when testing the website. Organizations put security measures in place to prevent unauthorized individuals from gaining access to network resources, such as the corporate database, which holds data on the organization, operations, and the strategic plan. During the kickoff meeting, ask the stakeholders to help you identify what data would cause the greatest impact if compromised. In other words, what breach would cause your company to be an opening segment of CNN because of a major data leak? And then once identified, focus efforts to test that data. Application testing should include input validation of form information along with common vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting, SQL injection and buffer overflow attacks.…

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