Use the CESG CHECK Penetration Testing to Protect your Web Applications

The internet is growing day by day and the risks connecting machines to the internet are ever present and increasing. Many hackers are using their skills to explore security loopholes in common software solutions and using them to compromise Internet servers. The number of attacks and attackers is increasing day by day and with each increase the threat level is also increased. In order to keep your web applications and servers safe from these attacks penetration testing is widely accepted to be the answer.

For all those who are unaware of the term ‘penetration testing’, it is basically a security service which simulates attacks on servers and websites and attempts to identify vulnerabilities before the hackers do. One of the ways of prevention is blocking the malicious links. As it is seen many times that attackers used malicious links to attack the site and once these links have been hit they attack the servers. Hence to prevent the attacks of the basic forms a security system must block the suspicious links. Many experienced IT security professionals are working in this domain and one of the most experienced and widely respected is Joseph Sheridan.

Joseph Sheridan is Director at ReactionIS, an independent, CESG-approved CHECK pen testing consultancy. He has been been involved in IT security and penetration testing for over a decade and has provided security consultancy to some of the most prestigious organisations in the UK.

If you expose any website or web application to the internet or a non-trusted user-base, you should be considering regular website security testing. Regular testing will minimize the threats and will make your site less likely to be compromised from attacks. Once you have conducted penetration testing with a full bill of health you should be able to feel at ease about the health of your website or web applications. Through regular penetration testing exercises, successful attacks can be prevented and attackers will seek easier targets elsewhere.

Attacks are very common these days but if we want to harness the full power of the Internet, then we  need systems with strong security. So check your web applications’ health and make sure that they are safeguarded from attacks. Do not hesitate in taking the services of the expert professional. Stay secure and engage a penetration test now.