Web Security Investigation through Penetration Tests: A Case study of an Educational Institution Portal

11/04/2018

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by   Daniel Omeiza, et al.

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Web security has become an important subject; many companies and organizations are becoming more security conscious as they build web applications to render online services and increase web presence. Unfortunately, many of these web applications are still susceptible to threats that can affect the users of the sites and also limit organizational operations as they lack strong immunities to malicious attacks. Educational portals and websites hold vital information whose integrity is important. Taking Carnegie Mellon University Africa's internship portal as case study, we carried out penetration tests and proffered mitigation measures to the vulnerabilities discovered from the tests. The results will inform educational institutions especially in the African domain.