testing applications for security issues

From: Michael Cunningham (crayola@optonline.net)
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 20:41:58 EST


Folks,

I am going to have to take on the task of testing software
applications my company produces as they roll through the
QA/UAT process for security concerns (can't hire anyone and software
to automate the testing seems to be very expensive). They are
mainly web based applications with a database backend, appworx jobs,
and some custom java and C programs. I am aware of how sql
injection, buffer overflows, cross site scripting, and other
security programming problems work, but I dont have a whole lot
of experience applying this knowledge to application testing.

Are there any training courses or documents/books you can
suggest that would help me learn the skills I need to
make this happen? Does anyone have a site that lists tools
(open source preferred) That I could use to help me test these
applications?

Thanks for any help you can offer,
Mike

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Michael Cunningham (CISSP, SCNA, SCSA, CCSA)
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