Finding Critical Vulnerabilities In A Business Application
The client addressed the identified weaknesses and gained a clearer understanding of its application's real security exposure before continuing further development.
- Client
- Business services client
- Industry
- Business Services
- Services
- Web Application Penetration Testing
- Weaknesses addressed
- Weaknesses addressed
- Real security exposure understood
- Real security exposure understood
Where they were starting from.
The client relied on a custom business application to manage internal operations and customer information. The application had grown significantly over time and included multiple user roles, APIs and third party integrations. The business needed to know: if someone targeted this application today, what could they actually access?
Two decisions that shaped the outcome.
- 01
What We Did
OnyxEra carried out an application penetration test covering authentication, authorisation, user roles, API endpoints, session management, input validation, file handling, business logic, sensitive data exposure and third party integrations.
- 02
What We Found
Testing uncovered vulnerabilities across application logic and access controls that could create unnecessary exposure if left unresolved. Rather than simply providing a vulnerability list, we mapped each issue to its potential business impact.
The client addressed the identified weaknesses and gained a clearer understanding of its application's real security exposure before continuing further development.
The numbers behind it.
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The ten areas covered, each issue mapped to its potential business impact, and the seven items delivered.
Cyber Security
Penetration testing, secure code review, cloud and identity security, compliance readiness and incident response planning.
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