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How to Perform Penetration Testing to Improve Software Security

Software security is a critical concern for businesses and organizations of all sizes. With the increasing sophistication of cyberattacks and the growing number of vulnerabilities in software, it's more important…
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DevSecOps Benefits & Challenges

Performing AST (Application Security Testing) is a common and effective way to find vulnerabilities and weaknesses in an application and make it resistant to security threats. Traditionally, AST has been…
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What Is Security Assurance and How Does it Help in Enterprise Security?

In an era of rapid digitisation, enterprises are adopting technology at a frenetic pace. The benefits accrued thereby include enhanced productivity, better customer service, scalability of operations, and increased revenue.…
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How To Plan and Test Your Data Safety: Best Practices

No organisation is safe from cybercrimes. Cybercriminals continue targeting high-profile businesses worldwide, and your organisation isn’t an exception. According to Data Protnet statics, 70% of small businesses are unprepared for…
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8 of the Best Cybersecurity Tools

As the world becomes increasingly digitized, cybersecurity is more important than ever. Businesses of all sizes must take steps to protect their data from cyberattacks. While there are many different…
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Busting Web Application Security Weaknesses: A Guide to Testing Methods

Web application security is important for protecting your business from hackers. In this guide, we will discuss some of the most common web application security weaknesses and provide tips on…
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How to Test Fraud Detection Software and What to Expect?

In the contemporary world, having a fraud detection software is essential for the well-being of any business. It can help protect your customers' information and safeguard your company's reputation. It…
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Peculiarities of Security Testing of Local Networks

Nowadays QA companies that test the security level of local networks offer an integrated approach. In this article, we’ll take a look at one effective tool that help detect and…
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DAST Testing: What It Is and Why It’s Important

DAST stands for Dynamic Application Security Testing and it is a technique for detecting software security flaws. This type of testing is essential since it may help discover and repair…
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Risk-Based Testing: Unlocking The Possibilities

Software development is a multi-stage process that is fundamentally difficult to predict, plan, and execute. In addition, by its very nature, the software is intangible and generally involves many stakeholders.…
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Penetration Testing 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Ethical Hacking

Every day, we use and generate huge amounts of data. And this data is used by different sectors like healthcare, finance, marketing, and others. However, data breaches are increasingly rampant these days.…
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A Quick Guide To Security Testing

Since cybercrime is still one of humanity's greatest dangers, today's successful companies place a high priority on security and information protection. For the year 2021, Cybersecurity Ventures estimates that the…
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OAuth 2.0 for Software Testers – Part 1

Imagine you are a tester having some knowledge about testing APIs either manually or using popular Java-based library for automation i.e. Rest-Assured. Your project manager approaches you and asks you…
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7 Signs Why Your Company Needs A Penetration Test

In order to stay competitive, lots of businesses are constantly innovating and updating their technology. Not to mention that 2020 saw a surge in digital transformation and remote working as…
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Top Growing Cyber Security Skills 2021

Today no organisation can function without some sort of cybersecurity whether that be in-house or an external service. From the evidence of the rise of commercial cyber attacks taking place,…
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Rethinking Security Strategies for the BFSI Sector

As a result of the emerging cybersecurity threats, the BFSI (Banking, Financial services and insurance) sector should initiate a series of steps to strengthen its cybersecurity architecture. This includes utilising…
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Credit Card Integration Testing – 3 Things to Consider for Testing Payment Integrations

To understand the process of transaction and payment integration, one must have thorough knowledge about payment gateways. In the following article, we are going to discuss some facts and figures,…
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How To Integrate Security Testing Into Your Software Development Life Cycle

Testing is a crucial part of developing software. You need to ensure that your software development is secure down to the very unit of source code. With that in mind,…
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Bitcoin and Free Thinking

Declan O'Riordan

Are you satisfied with your situation? If not you can try to accept it, or leave, or change yourself, or change the situation. Bitcoin and Blockchain were created by Cypherpunks…
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Why Software Cybersecurity and Quality Assurance Go Together

Digital data is the new gold, and hackers will stop at nothing to get yours. In a study by cybersecurity experts at Maryland University, researchers found that cyber-attacks happen once…
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Mobility and Digital Transformation Testing

When considering mobility and digital transformation testing, customers today demand ‘anytime- anything-anywhere’ service with the finest experience. From wanting new, upgraded, contemporary features in mobile apps and websites, to getting…
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Essential Tools for an Agile DevSecOps Team

For many years, security didn't include the development and release process. Organisations didn't carry out protection validation as they didn't understand the potential risks or the added value. But as…
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DevOps – Shift Lest Security Testing

What is shift left? In its most simple terms, “shift left” security is moving security to the earliest possible point in the development process. Modern CI/CD typically involves an eight-step…
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Cybersecurity During COVID-19 – Keeping Your Business Safe

How do we handle cybersecurity during COVID-19? There has been an increase in the number of people working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic. Businesses have been forced to…
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How To Maintain Data Security When Working From Home

Are you concerned about data security? The outbreak of Covid-19 has left multiple governments of the world flailing, businesses unprepared, and people on a constant lookout for sanitizers and masks…
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How Security Testing Teams Can Tackle New Source-Code Attacks

Developers and security testers need to pay special attention to vulnerabilities of their source code and in particular when using open-source components. The ransomware often takes advantage of vulnerabilities or…
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Most Common Online Security Threats and Solutions

As a software tester you are probably aware of the many online security threats out there. It is no secret that severe cyber security attacks are on the increase. Businesses…
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How Safe Are You? Ransomware and Cybersecurity

Are you a computer savvy who understands everything about malware? If you are, then you probably understand the turn of events in May 2017. If you are not, on the…
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Facing the Dragons, Dealing with Complex Unknowable Systems

James Christie

The EuroSTAR Best Paper 2018 was awarded to James Christie for his paper Facing the Dragons, Dealing with Complex Unknowable Systems. We are delighted to present it to you as…
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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing

Vijay Kumar Velu

Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing will provide you with a number or proven techniques to defeat the latest defences on the networks using Kali Linux. From selecting the most…
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Assessing and Determining Enterprise Cyber Risks

Sebastian Hess

In today’s world, value generation is more and more dependent on Information Technology. IT is susceptible to serious cyber threats and all enterprises need to address these with a high…
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Ensuring App Security Using Digital Certificates

If you use a Smartphone, you’d be familiar with this. On an average, billions of mobile applications are downloaded every year by those who use smartphones. Be it Apple, Android…
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Application Security Flaws in the Internet of Things

Ken Munro

While we have researched and documented many examples of hardware security issues with IoT devices, the most common source of IoT security flaws lies within the apps that are used…
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How to Do Penetration Testing – A Guide on Essential Tools for PenTesting

I just wanted to give you an overview how one can be a Penetration Tester with a little guide on how to do Penetration Testing. I’m not gonna talk about…
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Application Security Testing: A New Approach

Declan O'Riordan

Application Security testing is a broad and deep topic that few Testers or Developers ever master. Static and dynamic analysis vulnerability detection tools are proven to be appallingly inaccurate. Specialised…
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Effective Python Penetration Testing

Rejah Rehim

This eBook extract from 'Effective Python Penetration Testing' will concentrate on Chapter 1: Python Scripting Essentials It will begin by providing you with an overview of Python scripting and penetration…
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The 3 Top Techniques For Web Security Testing Using A Proxy

Paco Hope

If you’re a web application functional tester, you’ve almost certainly used a proxy to test a few features. (If not, you should!) In this webinar, Paco will briefly show how…
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Zen And The Art Of Security Testing

Paco Hope

Some security experts would tell you that security testing is very different from functional or non-functional software testing. They are wrong. Having worked on both sides, Paco gives 3 specific…
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Security Testing Techniques: What Skills Do you Need?

Are our systems secure? The short answer is "No“. Yes, SOME systems are secure, but most of them are not. My father remembers the time when people did not lock…
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Testing Bank Applications: How It Works And What Approach to Take

Icebergs can be deceptive when looked at! They encompass a huge mass below the sea level which is around 90 % of its actual size, leaving only 10 % for…
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API Testing and API Hacks

Wherever, whatever application store some data about sensitive information and interact with server using API methods, then it's possible for someone to possibly hack the data from API if you have…
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The Need of The Hour In Security Testing – Test Often And Test Right

Already this year the Identity Theft Resource Centre has reported 101 data breaches with over 80M records stolen. The US military Twitter account was recently hacked by terrorists. The Sony data breach…
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Reliability & Security Will Be Key For Business Adoption Of Wearables

With the advent of BYOD (Bring your own device), enterprises are adding time and resources to ensure they can get the maximum benefit from the personal devices that employees bring…
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What? Why? Who? And How? Of Application Security Testing

Declan O'Riordan

Passive testing resulted in several of my internet-facing projects receiving little regard to security other than the traditional access control matrix. Upon deciding to take a more assertive approach to…
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What? Why? Who? How? Of Application Security Testing

Declan O'Riordan

A penetration testing expert is better at pen-testing than me, but should I simply delegate application security to specialists and network firewalls? Actually no, I shouldn’t and neither should anyone…
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Mobile Security Testing – Application Threat Modelling

I am currently working in Mobile Security Testing as a penetration tester. Before this I worked on software/web application development and when I tuned my career towards software/mobile app testing,…
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Application Security Testing – Where Did It All Go Wrong?

Declan O'Riordan

This webinar looks at the evolution of application security testing and is presented by security testing expert Declan O'Riordan. O' Riordan speaks about the historical path to the present situation,…
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