What is Authenticated testing?
Testing an application while logged in as real users of each role, rather than only probing the public, unauthenticated surface.
Authenticated testing: Testing an application while logged in as real users of each role, rather than only probing the public, unauthenticated surface.
In plain language
Most of an application — and most of its risk — lives behind the login. Testing only the unauthenticated surface is like checking the locks on the lobby and ignoring every room. Authenticated testing exercises the features real users actually have.
SuperPentest signs in as each identity you supply, one test account per role, so it can test authorization by comparing what each role and tenant can reach — the only way to find broken access control. Access-control replay →
A concrete example
The unauthenticated scan of a project-management app is nearly empty — a login page and a marketing route. The risk lives behind the login: cross-project data access, role escalation, tenant leakage. Testing only the public surface would score the app “clean” while the real bugs sit untouched. SuperPentest signs in as each role you supply and tests what those users can actually reach.
Related
Access-control replay → · Broken access control →
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