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The dynamic nature of the internet requires your business website to function optimally and be at its best.
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Just as ensuring the optimal functioning of your web application is important, so is ensuring the security of prime value. • There are innumerable threats that could affect your website and your business hence, it is important that you protect your system from threat to keep your business profitable. • There are different kinds of tests available that can check your application for faults and indicate vulnerabilities. • This allows you to take stock of any threat that may come up in the future and secure your application by taking the necessary steps.
Security tests range from very simple to complicated tests. From checking a safe log out from an account to keeping confidential client data safe, these tests ensure that you and your business remain safe from threats. • Security tests are non functional tests that prevent hacking into the system or misuse by unauthorised persons. These tests check the system for non repudiation, authorisation, availability, authentication, integrity, confidentiality etc.
Software security testingis like functional tests with respect to the nature of testing the system’s behaviour in the presence of a malicious content. • Just as performance tests are conducted during software development stage, it is recommended that security tests are conducted on the system after it’s developed. • This will help you identify existing and potential threats that may affect your business in the future.
The main focus areas during a software security testing session are network security, system software security, client side application security and server side application security. • Network Security: In this kind of security testing, vulnerabilities in the network infrastructure are searched and identified. • System software security: In this kind of testing, the system software is tested for any kind of threat or danger and the problems are identified. • Client side application security:This is done to secure the client, which can be the browser or any other tool, to ensure security. • Server side application security-With security testing of the server, potential threats is identified and the server is secured using codes.
IT lifecycle assurancetoo is an important factor that you must consider if you are someone who has an online business. IT lifecycle assurance is a maintenance system that allows you to keep your applications running for a longer period. • With sustained usage, your application is bound to show faults. To avoid this and keep it functioning at its best for a longer period, you can get an IT lifecycle assurance test done. There are several companies that offer IT lifecycle assurance tests.