Security Testing
Security Testing is very important in today's world, because of the way computer and internet has affected the individual and organization. Today, it is very difficult to imagine world without Internet and latest communication system. All these communication systems increases efficiency of individual and organization by multifold.

Since every one from individual to organization, uses Internet or communication system to pass information, to do business, to transfer money it becomes very critical for the service provider to make sure that information and network are secured from the intruders.

Primary purpose of security testing is to identify the vulnerabilities and subsequently repairing them. Typically, security testing is conducted after the system has been developed, installed and is operational. Unlike other types of testing, network security testing is performed on the system on the periodic basis to make sure that all the vulnerabilities of the system are identified.

Network security testing can be further classified into following types

None of these tests provide a complete picture of network security. You will need to perform a combination of these techniques to ascertain status of your Network Testing Activities.

Apart from Network Security Testing, you should also take care of Application security testing. Intruders can target specific applications for unauthorized access or for any malicious reason. It becomes even critical for the web applications, because of the visibility and access of the application through Internet. Web application Security Testing is covered in a different section. 
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