In our experience, attackers tend to abuse vulnerabilities of web applications rather than exploit vulnerabilities of standard software applications. A Web Application Penetration Test evaluates your web application’s security robustness. Web Application Penetration Tests are usually highly customized due to unique combinations of programming languages, the development environment, architecture, databases, shared libraries and middleware. Web applications are rarely used out-of-the-box, considerable customization, which often results in security leaks, is generally necessary. In-house developers may not be familiar with special security issues of web applications. Thus, they are not aware of certain common security problems. These issues are highly risky and extremely dangerous since they are usually automatically exploited by webbots searching the internet for known vulnerabilities and exposures. 
