In this section, we are going to look at the rich set of features and capabilities Burp Suite provides the tester with. We will also be looking at the quick fixes that help automate the whole pentesting process with a low number of false positives. This will help beginners to understand the awesome capabilities that Burp provides when it comes to penstesting applications over the web.
Burp Suite has a wide array of options that allow us to do pentesting efficiently. Once you open Burp Suite, you will see the following tabs:
Dashboard
Target
Proxy
Intruder
Repeater
Sequencer
Decoder
Comparer
Extender
Project Options
User Options
This is how it looks on Burp Suite:
Let's go ahead and understand all these options one by one so that we are well aware of the capabilities from here onward whenever we perform a pentest in the later chapters.