A Comprehensive NIDS-Based Strategy for Web Application Penetration Testing

Imagine receiving an email from cybercriminals stating that all your personal information has been compromised— name, date of birth, home address, and finances. They are demanding money from you in exchange for not leaking your sensitive information. It's a terrifying situation to be in, isn't it? We adopt an NIDS-based approach for web application penetration testing in order to resolve this issue. Web application penetration testing is an ongoing security evaluation that mimics actual attacks to evaluate how secure web applications are. The main objective is to find any possible flaws, configuration errors, or vulnerabilities that malicious users can use to jeopardize a web application's availability, confidentiality, or integrity. An NIDS is deployed to detect fraudulent activities at the network level, which can complement conventional penetration testing techniques that concentrate on flaws in the software. The goal of this research is to improve the identification of security vulnerabilities at the network and application levels by combining traditional web application penetration testing with Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS).