BASIC TESTS AND TECHNIQUES

Let’s quickly summarise the steps involved in conducting a penetration test: Understand the application. Prepare the threat profile. Prepare the test plan. Execute the test cases. Prepare the report. In the previous chapter, we discussed the first three steps. We saw how a systematic approach is fol...

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Hauptverfasser: Kapoor, Nilesh, Doraiswamy, Arvind, Pakala, Sangita
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Zusammenfassung:Let’s quickly summarise the steps involved in conducting a penetration test: Understand the application. Prepare the threat profile. Prepare the test plan. Execute the test cases. Prepare the report. In the previous chapter, we discussed the first three steps. We saw how a systematic approach is followed to arrive at an exhaustive threat profile. We also discussed how a test plan is built – for each threat all possible attacks are listed. During the discussion, we came across a number of attack techniques like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery and variable manipulation. It’s time to take a closer look