Manuals / Security Testing Basics / Ch 4

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4. Checkpoint: security smoke

Security Testing Basics · 20 pages source format

Run a mini security smoke on staging: authz, session, sensitive fields, headers notes.

What you'll learn

  • Smoke packaging
  • Severity language

Ship the smoke report

One page: what you tried, what failed, what’s unknown.

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Write the report. Include “out of scope.”

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