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How Application Penetration Testing Prevents Real-World Breaches

Security Boulevard, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025

All the serious breaches that you have read about most likely began with an application bug. Hackers do not simply seek out poorly written passwords: they strike at the applications that your business uses: web portals, e-commerce platforms, mobile apps, and the internal applications that support your business.

One weakness can be used to reveal sensitive information, monetary dealings, or business infrastructure. The average price of a data breach in the U.S. is $9.44 million and most data breaches are traced to the flaws in the applications, such as poorly configured APIs, weak security controls, or insecure libraries. The solution? Application Penetration Testing (App Pentesting) is a more realistic, manual, and expert-oriented kind of testing that identifies exploitable vulnerabilities before attackers do.

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