Security Testing is performed to identify vulnerabilities, threats, and risks in a software application to ensure that data and resources are protected from potential attacks.
Security Testing evaluates a software system to protect it from unauthorized access, data breaches, and other security threats. It ensures confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the application.
Identify potential security vulnerabilities, ensure data confidentiality and integrity, and protect against threats like SQL injection, XSS, CSRF.
Prevents security breaches, protects sensitive user data, and enhances user trust and reliability.
Time-consuming and complex, requires skilled testers, and may not detect all vulnerabilities.
Identify security requirements, prepare security test cases, perform vulnerability assessment, conduct penetration testing, and fix issues and re-test.
Example: Testing a banking application for SQL injection and unauthorized access vulnerabilities before production deployment.
Perform security testing early in SDLC, use automated and manual testing together, regularly update security policies, and maintain logs and reports for audit purposes.