While secure development practices are an important part of keeping your application and its data protected, you also have to prove your defenses are working. Developers are used to things like unit testing and even functional testing but some feel out of their depth when it comes to security testing. Effective security testing, or pentesting, is easier than you might think.
We’ll start by introducing some of the techniques and tools you can use to test your own applications and finish with a contest to see how much you’ve learned.