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Practical Web Penetration Testing

By : Gus Khawaja
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Practical Web Penetration Testing

By: Gus Khawaja

Overview of this book

Companies all over the world want to hire professionals dedicated to application security. Practical Web Penetration Testing focuses on this very trend, teaching you how to conduct application security testing using real-life scenarios. To start with, you’ll set up an environment to perform web application penetration testing. You will then explore different penetration testing concepts such as threat modeling, intrusion test, infrastructure security threat, and more, in combination with advanced concepts such as Python scripting for automation. Once you are done learning the basics, you will discover end-to-end implementation of tools such as Metasploit, Burp Suite, and Kali Linux. Many companies deliver projects into production by using either Agile or Waterfall methodology. This book shows you how to assist any company with their SDLC approach and helps you on your journey to becoming an application security specialist. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on knowledge of using different tools for penetration testing.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Metasploit Cheat Sheet

All About Using Burp Suite

You are getting closer and closer to becoming a pro in application security testing. This chapter is dedicated to an amazing application called Burp Suite. It is a mandatory tool for testing web application security. I'm not trying to sell you the application; rather, I'm giving you an honest opinion, based on my own experience as a web application penetration tester. Burp was written by PortSwigger Ltd. I can't thank them enough for allowing us to test web applications, making sure that they are secure against threats.

You're probably wondering, why Burp? Why not one of the fancy, expensive, single-button tools out there on the market?

First of all, just because they are expensive doesn't mean that they are good; secondly, don't be a slave to the Gartner charts. Big companies increase their prices when they appear at the...