Thick Client Penetration Testing Tutorials - Part 1
Hi Readers, today we will read on performing a penetration testing on thick clients. Why thick client penetration testing? Thick client applications are not new having been in existence for a long time, however if given to perform a pentest on thick clients, it is not as simple as a Web Application Pentest. Thick clients are majorly used across organizations for their internal operations. In this series of articles, we will learn various tools and techniques used to perform thick client application penetration testing. A step by step breakdown being deployed, we will discuss about starting with the very basics to the advanced test cases. Introduction Referenced under multiple names, such as: Fat client/Heavy client/Rich client/Thick client, such applications follow a client –server architecture . For an easy to understand approach, thick clients are applications which are deployed locally on our systems. Such as skype/ outlook. Thick clients can be developed using multiple languages