A security team needs to evaluate potential security flaws in its newly deployed web application before making it available to customers. Which of the following approaches would be the BEST first step in identifying potential vulnerabilities?
Perform automated vulnerability scanning against the application
Review the application's access control matrix
Conduct a full-scale penetration test with a red team
Automated vulnerability scanning is the best first step because it provides a systematic, comprehensive baseline assessment of potential security flaws with minimal disruption to the application. It efficiently identifies common vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and misconfigurations before proceeding to more resource-intensive and targeted testing methods. The scan results will help prioritize further testing efforts and remediation activities. While the other options are valuable security practices, they either come later in the testing process or address different aspects of security management that wouldn't serve as the most efficient first step for identifying vulnerabilities in a newly deployed web application.
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