Re: Recommendations for web app test?

[Cesar <cesarc56 () yahoo com>]

You have another option, buy a web app scanning tool,
why? becuase with it you can continuosly audity your
web application just paying once. When you hire a
company for an auditing after one week/month of the
auditing, your web application will have changed (web
applications are of dynamic nature) and probably it
will have new vulnerabilities, so you will have to
audit again and pay again and so on.

The tool i like most is AppDetective for Web
Applications(www.appsecinc.com)
Or you can go for free tools but they are very
limited.

Cesar.
--- Daniel <deeper () gmail com> wrote:

> the first statement sounds like a brave one to make!
>
> ok ill break it down...
>
> what should i be looking for?
> Im gathering this is for the company performing the
> test? I'd say look
> at a company with a decent track record in
> application security
> testing. There are a load of people who have jumped
> on the app testing
> bandwagon recently, and i personally doubt they have
> enough knowledge
> to perform an indepth test.
> The company needs to fully understand the
> application they are testing
> and at the same time do an indepth audit of all
> components.
>
> what should the auditors be looking for?
> I'd hope they would be using my pentest checklist as
> a reference
(http://www.owasp.org/documentation/testing/application.html),
> as they
> could always give you it as a reference to what they
> looked at during
> the test.
> If they are good, they know exactly what to look for
>
> how will you know that they are testing for what you
> need them to test for?
> You need to specify exactly what you want testing.
> If necessary, use
> the pentest checklist from above and say you want
> all area's covered
>
> what is a good price range?
> I can only speak for UK prices, but around the 1000
> to 1500UKP range
> per day is common.
> For your setup, i think 5 days is more than enough
> and should allow
> the team testing it to funny understand the
> applications and find
> issues.
>
> As for security companies i'd recommend; (no this
> isnt a pro vendor
> thing, its people i know who have the skillset and
> can do the job
> right)
>
> - Foundstone
> - @stake
> - Sensepost
> - Corsaire
> - NGS Software
> - ImmunitySec
>
> Daniel
>
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:40:16 +0000, App Crawler
> <appcrawler_8080 () hotmail com> wrote:
> > Well,  we've decided that everything in our
> environment is pretty secure,
> > except for our web applications. So, now we need
> to outsource the security
> > assessment of our web applications. So, my
> question is, what should I be
> > looking for? What should the auditors be looking
> for? How will I know that
> > they are testing for what I need them to test for?
> What is a good price
> > range, based on one e-commerce application, one
> employee intranet
> > application, and one customer portal application?
> Should it be based on the
> > number of forms? Or some other metric? Please
> advise?!?! Thanks.
> >
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