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Incorporating Security Testing as part of Software Quality Assurance

Our range of services helps you identify security vulnerabilities in your web-based software applications in order to protect your organisation against unwelcome penetration.

Incorporating security testing as part of Software Quality Assurance is a growing trend, which minimises the level of financial and reputational risk you are exposed to via web-based enterprise software.

Security testing includes tools and techniques, which exposes any potential attacks threatening your business and assists in resolving these issues.

Security testing in your enterprise is as vital as functional testing and performance testing.

HP Enterprise Services rightly reports that security testing in your enterprise is as vital as functional and performance testing for five main reasons:

• Human Nature - Humans are unfortunately known to be the weakest link in our security chain and they are prone to motives including stealing intellectual property for monetary gain, gaining unauthorised access to confidential information, disgruntled employees seeking revenge. Testing for these possible scenarios at an early stage can ensure that the corrective actions are implemented.
• Compliance - With the increased exposure to cybercrimes, enterprises have realised the importance of being security compliant. Nowadays, this has become a necessity as it provides a means to establish the confidence of the community evolving around your enterprise and it adds value to your brand name. Most importantly, by abiding to these compliance laws, your enterprise is avoiding any potential financial loss by meeting the latest industry’s security standards.
• Silent Killer - Security issues in your business often goes undetected until they build up to cause serious functional issues which act as “showstoppers” for your application. Hence, identifying the finer layers affecting your application act as a preventive measure against such a negative outcome.
• Information Access - The World Wide Web and its social networking facilities are now tools which are present in most organisations. With the introduction of Cloud Computing, it is becoming more and more evident that access to information need to be managed and tested to ensure that the user privileges in place are adequate against misuse and infiltration to confidential data.
• Technological Advances - The I.T industry is a fast evolving world and the rate at which new technologies are implemented are well exploited by hackers to infiltrate your security barriers in place. Security Testing hence has to be a continuous process which is keeping pace with the latest security techniques.

How Secure is Your Business?

Statistics from Gartner demonstrates that 75% of all security breaches occur at the application level (Gartner, 2005). Research from Ponemon demonstrated that the average recovery cost per data breach in the U.S is around $6.6 million (Ponemon, 2007). These statistics clearly highlight that the application layer is an easy target for hackers and having a protected network and perimeter architecture unfortunately does not guarantee a secure business

For more information on Security Testing please contact us or call us on +27 11 317 3684 and we will gladly be of further assistance.