The importance of vulnerability assessment is the unearth fact and nobody can’t deny it. The technology has revolved in the recent years, the world has seen the things happening that they can’t even imagine. The rising Ecommerce industry has changed the way we shop and think about any product/brand, now if your business does not have the website, social media presence, then your business is not performing well, or you are not doing it right. Every organization needs to have a corporate website, whether they are doing online business or not. This rising industry has created many opportunities, think of a small business. But, at the same time this growth has raised many important questions and the most important of them is about the security.

The security threat is real, in the recent years we have seen many renowned web application and websites got compromised, some of them are belongs to the large organizations. Think about an ecommerce website, as a buyer, you must be curious how they are using your information; can they protect your personal information and credit card information? The business owner has the same question in the mind to protect against the hacking attack and to fix the vulnerabilities like SQL-injection vulnerability.

Here comes the role of an information security professional and the tools that he/she utilize to perform the test your web application. Cross-site-scripting and SQL-injection seems the most dangerous vulnerabilities, along with the remote code execution RFI, LFI and others. You must have read that the kid has exploited the SQL-injection to hack into TALK TALK website. So just imagine, how important the automated tool is, even a kid with the tool can hack the known web infrastructure. Well, the point is not to encourage the usage of automated vulnerability scanning tools to hack, but the point is to encourage the usage of automated tools to find the vulnerability and fix it before the kid is exploit.

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