Mumbai University > Information Technology > Sem 8 > Software Testing and Quality Assurance

Marks: 10 Marks

Difficulty : Medium

From web based email to online shopping and banking, organisations are bringing their business directly to customer’s web browsers directly.

While web application offer convenience to business and customer alike, their ambiguity makes them popular attack target for cyber criminals. As a result web application security testing or scanning and testing web application for risk is essential.

Security testing can be divided into two categories.

1. Testing the security of infrastructure hosting the web application.

2. Testing for vulnerabilities of web application.

Firewalls and pot scans can be the solutions for security infrastructure.