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Bridging the Gap: Elevating Red Team Assessments with Application Security Testing
- Red Team assessments often prioritize attacking network and infrastructure components, often overlooking web applications, which can be a primary entry point into organizations.
- By integrating application security expertise into Red Team assessments organizations can proactively defend against a constantly evolving threat landscape, ensuring a more robust and resilient security posture.
- Application security specialists augment the Red Team's capabilities by identifying vulnerabilities within the various components of web applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) exposed to the internet.
- The strategy employed to breach external perimeter can involve exploiting vulnerabilities across the entire attack surface by chaining together low- and medium-vulnerabilities for achieving significant impact.
- Application security expertise can also be leveraged within the context of focused external perimeter assessments.
- Combining diverse skills can spark creativity and lead to more effective attack simulations.
- The integration of AppSec expertise has resulted in an increase in engagements where Red Teams successfully gained a significant advantage during a customer's external perimeter review.
- Four different case studies demonstrate how integrating AppSec expertise into Red Team assessments significantly enhances the effectiveness of the exercise.
- Including application security experts in Red Team assessments can yield significant benefits in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities across the entire attack surface.
- The integrated approach is useful for organizations with varying maturity levels in understanding and fortifying their security posture.
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