Security Testing
What is security testing?
Security testing is one of the most critical aspects of software functionality. It spots and records a product’s vulnerabilities, flaws, and dangers to avoid intruder attacks. Additionally, it prevents leaks of information, financial loss, and repercussions on an organization’s reputation and its employees. Security attacks can also affect average users as they may cause personal information leaks and financial loss, among other threats.
Benefits of security testing
- identifies security threats and vulnerabilities in software at the surface level as well as a deeper level
- prevents leaks of personal information, data, and financial loss
- protects an organization’s assets against intruder attacks
- diminishes the security threats within the software system
- ensures compliance with current security standards and regulations
Types of security testing
The starting point in identifying existing security risks: automated and manual tools are used to scan the system.
Using both manual and automated tools, it analyzes identified threats and solutions for each.
It manually simulates a security attack to verify the strengths and weaknesses of a system against external hacking. It exposes unknown vulnerabilities that might have escaped previous scans.
The security threats identified so far will be assessed by measuring the risks involved: Low, Medium, and High.
The system, software, or app is reviewed against existing security standards while assessing the security of physical configurations, operating systems, user practices, etc.
With the help of various hacking methods and a process more complex than penetration testing, ethical hacking exposes security flaws at a deeper level through a hacking simulation from within the software.
The last type of security testing is a combination of Security Scanning, Ethical Hacking, and Risk assessment that analyses an organization’s or product’s entire security system.
