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Burp Suite Essentials

By : Akash Mahajan
Book Image

Burp Suite Essentials

By: Akash Mahajan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Burp Suite Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Saving and restoring a state


Once we start relying on Burp Suite Pro for all our application security testing, we need to ensure that we are safely able to save and restore all the work that we are doing.

Now, based on your workload, you might be working on only one application at a time, or you might have to test different applications for the same or different clients. Either way, a good idea is to completely separate the state and configuration for each application.

Saving the state allows you to close the Burp session at the end of the day.

We can save the current state of Target, Proxy, Scanner, and Repeater. A great option is to save the state for only in-scope items. Have a look at the following screenshot:

While we can only save the state of four tools, we can save all our configuration settings for almost all of the tools:

Apart from saving the configuration settings, we should save all sensitive information, such as passwords, with a master password. Needless to say, this password should...