title: Security Testing Cheat Sheet
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DRAFT CHEAT SHEET - WORK IN PROGRESS
Introduction
This page intends to provide quick basic security tips for quality assurance specialists. The goal of the cheat sheet is to act as a starting point for a comprehensive QA Test Plan for security of web applications.
Testing Tools
Testing web applications is difficult without tools. The following tools are the common set for QA professionals to accomplish all of the test cases in the security test plan.
- Zed Attack Proxy
- WebScarab
Security Test Plan
Each major security surface in a web application has a known set of vulnerabilities that can be tested for using a set of test cases.
Injection
Authentication and Authorization
Session management
Configuration
Compliance
PCI
HIPPA
Handling data
Technology Specific Tests
PHP
Microsoft
Ruby on Rails
Adobe
Java
JavaScript Frameworks
Configuration
Cross Site Request Forgery
Authors and Primary Editors
Bill Sempf - bill.sempf [at] owasp.org User:Bill Sempf