Website Security Tests Protect Against Application Vulnerabilities

clipped from www.zimbio.com More than four out of every five (85 percent) U.S. businesses have experienced a data breach, according to a recent study by Colchester, Conn.-based law firm Scott + Scott, putting millions of consumers’ Social Security numbers and other sensitive information in the hands of criminals.�Website owners are vulnerable to unwanted intrusions by malicious hackers and other harmful codes. If a website’s server and applications are not protected from security vulnerabilities, identities, credit card information, and billions of dollars are at risk. Many companies rely on a firewall to protect their websites from security breaches. Unfortunately, firewalls do not provide enough protection.�Hackers are constantly looking for new ways to compromise systems through unguarded, and sometimes not so obvious, side doors. A web application scanner should crawl the entire website, analyze in-depth each & every file, and display the entire website structure.