Application penetration testing
Safely discover security flaws in your application.
Applications often expose data unintentionally, often through technical flaws and business logic abuse. Want to guarantee there’s no backdoor access to your sensitive data? Let us uncover the flaws first.
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NuHarbor helped us identify the correct assets to monitor, then tuned our systems for maximum results. Now we only receive notifications for true positive alerts so my team can spend more time focusing on their objectives.
We’ve utilized NuHarbor for a few years now to conduct quarterly vulnerability assessments. Our usual policy is to change vendors every few years, but we’ve had such exceptional service from NuHarbor that we see no need to shop around. The reports we receive are comprehensive and prioritize remediation advice.
NuHarbor conducted a web application penetration test on a few of our edge applications. They discovered many configuration weaknesses including insecure direct object reference (IDOR). They notified us immediately and offered advice on how to fix it. Their skilled engineers provided step-by-step assistance and retested to ensure that this critical vulnerability was fixed.
Wifi. Yeah, that’s an unfamiliar animal to deal with. We hired NuHarbor to test the wireless networks we provide for our employees and customers to access store services. NuHarbor came onsite and set up their “toolkit” with antennas sticking out all around. They were able to set up a rogue access point, mimicking our access points, and users unknowingly logged on. NuHarbor initiated an evil twin attack to capture and inject packages into the network stream between user computers and other systems and then delivered findings so we could educate and curve our user behavior.
NuHarbor performed an external penetration test on our networks and alerted us to critical vulnerabilities. They let us know what the affected response might be from the host before they tried to exploit it. We were updated twice a day which was super helpful to me and my staff. They also provided great remedial guidance that helped us quickly correct vulnerabilities.
Our company outsources our web development. We asked NuHarbor to review the source code and check for insecure API calls. We were astonished at the findings they uncovered. It was an uneasy feeling knowing that the web developer we hired left so many security flaws in our code. I can’t say enough how comforting it was to have the NuHarbor team give us, and our partner, clear recommendations to fix our source code.
NuHarbor waged a phishing campaign against our employees by mirroring a realistic payroll website that we use in our company. The NuHarbor engineers captured several IT administrators’ credentials. With domain administrator access, they were able to compromise our whole domain within 20 minutes of starting the phishing campaign. We had the opportunity to show our leadership how pertinent it is to implement better user account practices, MFA, and improved user security awareness training and build the funds into our annual IT security budget.
NuHarbor performed an internal penetration test of our organization utilizing one of our legacy network protocols. They were able to gain administrative access and push malicious code to our network. Had this been a real attack, we could have lost everything.
NuHarbor assessments provide visibility into our third-party risk exposure. We don’t have the internal resources to conduct yearly assessments of our 40+ vendors. These valuable insights inform the decisions we make when choosing and managing partnerships.
NuHarbor has been instrumental to our SOC operations. Without their flexibility, expertise, and quick reaction, our small SOC team could not operate. NuHarbor continually engages with us at the operational and executive level. They’re always looking for new, creative solutions. Not only are they willing to think outside the box, they actually deliver.
Identify and classify application vulnerabilities before hackers do.
Data is today’s gold standard and needs to be protected like the valuable asset it is. Application security testing reduces the risk of a data breach by detecting vulnerabilities before they are exploited by attackers. Here’s how:
- We protect your clients, your employees, and your reputation from unnecessary risk. Penetration testing provides peace of mind that your web application is protected.
- We follow compliance best practices. Many security programs and frameworks like HIPAA and PCI require regular penetration tests of web applications. We specialize in compliance assessments and can meet your testing requirements at any frequency.
- We classify and prioritize risks. Our engineers are developers first and understand the time you put into your applications. We prioritize next steps by urgency and amount of work, so you can easily decide where fixes should happen in your development lifecycle.
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Penetration testing checklist
Here's a checklist of what we might look for:
Logging and Monitoring
Does the application track users properly? Are systems actively checked?
Broken Authentication
Is there proper authentication? Do authorization controls apply to users’ actions?
Sensitive Data Exposure
Does the application disclose confidential information? Is the environment providing information that could aid an attacker?
Input Validation
Are user inputs validated and sanitized? Does the application behave independently of input?
Output Encoding
Does the application enforce output Encoding? Is there a consistent interpretation of the output?
Filtering Layers
Are there filtering mechanisms? Do they proactively defend against common web application attacks?
SSL Encryption Analysis
Does the web server support the security levels of the encryption ciphers? Are certificates supported on both the server side and the client side?
Parameter Passing
Is parameter handling secure? Could the application mishandle authorization information? Could server-side information mistakenly be sent to the user?
Application Logic Flow
Does the application enforce logic flow? Could an attacker control the application flow at will?
Cross-Site Scripting
Are there cross-site scripting vulnerabilities? Is there proper encoding of user-supplied input?
Injections
Does user input construct database queries? Can an attacker craft an input to control queries beyond the programmer’s intent?
Path Traversals
Do user inputs construct file paths? Can an attacker craft an input to escape the directory structure of the application?
XML External Entities
Is it possible to inject XML tags or modify the XPath query?
Certificate Testing
Are the application’s certificates current, issued by a trusted authority, in the correct domain name, etc.?
Integer Underflow/Overflow
Are there instances that result in values above or below the allowable integer value?
Buffer Overflow
Does the application perform proper bounds checking?
Known Vulnerable Components
Are server-side and client-side components current and secure?
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