Application Penetration Testing Versus Vulnerability Scanning

September 2010

Running a web application scanning tool against a website can find serious vulnerabilities. A more in-depth look through web-application penetration testing can reveal further interesting and exploitable vulnerabilities. This article demonstrates some real-world examples of the different types of flaws found only through manual testing.

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This article was published in the September issue of the ISSA Journal.

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