Application Assessment

Web applications are growing in size and complexity. Despite their sophistication, web applications are designed to respond to simple HTTP requests. These requests can put applications and confidential information at risk as hackers can shield attacks with legal requests that pass through secured networks and intrusion detection systems. Once a malicious request interacts with a web application, it can attack via vulnerabilities within the web application. 

Application Assessment uses a stateful Assessment approach. With a strong technology platform and professional security experts, Application Assessment can be done highly accurate, thorough, fast and extremely cost effective results with no software or hardware installation. By using Application Assessment Service, customers can transition the program back in house at any point with the full software solution. 

There are top automated application assessment tools on the market to sift through thousands of lines of code and identify vulnerabilities.  This cuts down on the time and cost it takes to manually review each line of code. Application Assessment tools are extremely savvy and are able to root out vulnerabilities in minutes that would take the best hacker in the world hours, months, or more to find. The issue is that you have got to take the Application Assessment tool results and determine what actually matters in your environment. 

When it comes to Application Assessment - testing and remediation - focus on the urgent and important in your environment. I am not saying ignore the other issues that come across in an Application Assessment. I am just saying that you have likely got much bigger fish to fry when thinking about Web application assessment than worry about random vulnerabilities that may never be found and if they are will have a very minor chance of being exploited leading to anything of value. 

The results of an extensive Application Assessment can appear extensive on first review. However, it is important to understand that many Web application security holes found by such an Application Assessment may in fact not matter to a specific situation of an organization. The problem is that many of these Web application security holes are not as big a deal as they may seem. Regardless of any marketing fluff or pre canned security policies and reports, the network of your organization, business needs, and risk tolerance dictate what really matters when it comes to sorting through all the results you get when performing an Application Assessment.