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Web Application Testing Methodology

A full OWASP-aligned web application assessment — from mapping the attack surface to proving exploitability. Each phase feeds the next automatically, with an AI orchestration layer choosing the next tool based on what the last one found.

Phase 1

Reconnaissance & Mapping

Map the surface

Discover hosts, subdomains, and the technology stack before touching the application, using passive sources that do not affect uptime.

Subfinder / Amass
Certificate Transparency
WhatWeb / tech fingerprinting
DNS recon (dnsrecon, dnsenum)
Phase 2

Crawling & Enumeration

Find every route

Spider the application — including JavaScript-rendered SPA routes and live XHR/fetch calls — plus content and hidden-parameter discovery.

OWASP ZAP spider
Headless (Puppeteer) crawler
ffuf / gobuster / dirb
Arjun (hidden parameters)
Phase 3

Vulnerability Analysis

Test every input

Test against the OWASP Top 10 and the current CVE catalogue. CVSS is recalculated against your exposure context, not the static NVD rating.

Nuclei
Nikto
XSStrike
testssl / sslyze
wafw00f / byp4xx
Phase 4

Exploitation & Validation

Prove the impact

Confirm exploitability so you know which findings are real risk vs theoretical. Every active exploit is gated by your authorization scope.

sqlmap (autonomous follow-up)
Commix
Autonomous PoC (XSS/SQLi/IDOR/auth bypass)
Exploit-chain discovery
Phase 5

Authenticated & Business-Logic

Test as a user

With supplied credentials we test post-login surface — access control, IDOR, and multi-user authorization flaws a logged-out scan can never reach.

Authenticated ZAP
IDOR / access-control probes
Multi-user session testing
Phase 6

Reporting

Make it actionable

Executive summary plus technical detail, each finding tagged to OWASP / compliance frameworks with remediation guidance and proof of concept.

Risk-scored findings
OWASP / CWE mapping
PDF / web / DOCX reports

Standards we map to

Every finding is tagged against the frameworks your compliance team actually uses.

OWASP Top 10
OWASP ASVS
PCI-DSS v4.0 (11.4)
NIST SP 800-115

A note on authorization

Every active test requires either attested ownership of the target during signup or an explicit written authorization on file. We log every test request against this authorization so there's never any ambiguity about scope — we are bound by the same Computer Misuse legislation our customers are.

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