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Practical Web Penetration Testing

By : Gus Khawaja
Book Image

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

Vulnerability assessment

In the previous section, we enumerated the services aggressively. Some of the Nmap scripts will check for vulnerabilities—for example, when entering the option --script=http*, Nmap, in this case, will execute all the HTTP scripts, including the ones that check for vulnerabilities, for example, http-vuln-cve2010-2861.

In reality, in an enterprise environment, we would use automatic scanners, either Nessus or Nexpose. Nowadays, these companies offer scanners on the cloud as well—for example, the Nexpose equivalent in the cloud is called InsightVM. We heavily rely on these scanners to identify the vulnerabilities in the network infrastructure. Your role is to take the results and make sure that these flaws exist—in other words, that they're not false positives.

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