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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

Summary

As you've seen in this chapter, ATM is not so hard after all. People underestimate the importance of this document, but once you start using it, you won't be able to stop because it has so many benefits. Be creative and don't stick to the same template discussed in this chapter; instead, use it as a guideline for your next application threat modeling document.

Any professional website project starts with an architecture phase, and that's when you need to show your skills and consider the ATM document as a security architecture document as well. Your job is not only to be a pentester, and that's a very important concept to understand in the security field. Feel free to add your desired sections, for example monitoring, logging, secure coding, security controls, or any recommendations that you feel will help the project at the beginning before they...