Security Testing and Quality Assurance
Security testing in cloud-native apps is a massive concern that must constantly pass assurance and validation checks in order to keep users secure and happy. Security testing often overlaps with the sort of testing done in a data center. Both environments promote themselves as utterly secure for third-party computing, so ensuring that “nothing gets in, nothing gets out” is imperative. The following details the different types of security testing along with the appropriate circumstances where they can be used:
- Penetration testing: Penetration testing is a form of black-box testing, meaning an application’s functionality is tested without any knowledge of the structure of its internal code, paths, or implementation details. It is focused on how the input matches the output. A penetration test emulates how a cybercriminal or hacker would attempt to get around the security of the app, using the same tools that the attacker...
