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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

Enterprise secure coding guidelines

Every enterprise will need security policies to define the best practices in security for its development teams. One of these policies is secure coding. You will be the custodian of these best practice documents (or checklist) and update them through the evolution of the technology. Whenever possible, the secure coding guidelines should be shared with developers in the organization through the intranet website of the company. If this document doesn't exist, it is your job as an application security professional to make a new one and suggest it to management, and believe me, they will appreciate it big time. Some companies encourage the idea of going through secure coding training for developers to engage them in that process. You can refer to the secure coding checklist section in this chapter to get ideas on how to develop your own secure...