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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

Static code analysis – manual scan versus automatic scan

In the preceding picture (In the previous section), you can clearly see that the manual code review will be executed when the project is ready for deployment in a typical security development lifecycle. The main idea that I need you to grasp here is that the manual scan happens after an automatic scan, so the manual code review is to spot any missing flaws that the automatic scanner didn't catch. Some people will debate this idea, and you will be surprised at the different opinions you'll get—someone might tell you that a manual scan is enough, and that they don't need a scanner, and that's too much ego because we're human, and we make mistakes no matter how good we are. On the other hand, some people will say that a scanner is enough, but according to their experience, there is always...