Question

A retail company operates a customer-facing web application with a critical checkout process. The security operations team wants to proactively detect performance degradation and functional failures in the payment workflow before real customers are affected, especially during off-peak hours when few users are active. Which testing technique BEST meets this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Deploy synthetic transactions that simulate the full checkout workflow at scheduled intervals

Answer

Enable real user monitoring (RUM) to capture actual customer session performance data

Answer

Conduct a quarterly penetration test against the payment application

Answer

Increase the sampling rate of application server log reviews