Web applications play a vital role in every modern organization. But, if your organization does not properly test and secure its web apps, adversaries can compromise these applications, damage business functionality, and steal data.
Unfortunately, many organizations operate under the mistaken impression that a web application security scanner will reliably discover flaws in their systems.
Customers expect web applications to provide significant functionality and data access.
Even beyond the importance of customer-facing web applications, internal web applications increasingly represent the most commonly used business tools within any organization.
Unfortunately, there is no "patch Tuesday" for custom web applications, so major industry studies find that web application flaws play a major role in significant breaches and intrusions.
Adversaries increasingly focus on these high-value targets either by directly abusing public-facing applications or by focusing on web apps as targets after an initial break-in.Modern cyber defense requires a realistic and thorough understanding of web application security issues.
Anyone can learn to sling a few web hacks, but effective web application penetration testing requires something deeper.
