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Every service-based organization now places a high priority on cybersecurity. Organizations that are unaware of cyberattacks and the damage they may do to systems are becoming targets. Therefore, concentrating on thorough security testing procedures is the best strategy to secure the firm. The major reason network penetration tests are important for an organization's security is that they teach staff how to deal with any form of malicious entity break-in.

A Session management vulnerability arises when the tokens used to identify sessions are not securely stored, expired properly or created using poor algorithms. In this case, an attacker can steal a user's session by sniffing the traffic or guessing the token values. This can lead to hijacking of user's accounts and sensitive data theft, which may have implications on business operations.