Web applications are where customers and businesses meet. On the internet, a very large proportion of the traffic is now between servers and clients, and the power and trust placed in each application while exposing them to the outside world makes them a popular target for adversaries to steal, eavesdrop, or cripple businesses and institutions. As penetration testers, we need to think like the attacker to better understand, test, and make recommendations for the improvement of those web apps. There are many tools to fit any budget, but Kali Linux is a fantastic and industry-leading open source distribution that can facilitate many of these functions for free. Tools Kali provides, along with standard browsers and appropriate plugins, enable us to tackle most web penetration testing scenarios. Several organizations provide wonderful training environments that can be paired with a Kali pen testing box to train and hone their web pen testing skills in safe environments. These can ensure low-risk experimentation with powerful tools and features in Kali Linux that go beyond a typical script-kiddie approach. This approach assists ethical hackers in responsibly exposing, identifying, and disclosing weaknesses and flaws in web applications at all stages of development. One can safely test using these powerful tools, understand how to better identify vulnerabilities, position and deploy exploits, compromise authentication and authorization, and test the resilience and exposure applications possess. At the end, the customers will be better served with actionable intelligence and guidance that will help them secure their application and better protect their users, information, and intellectual property.
Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing
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Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing
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Overview of this book
You will start by delving into some common web application architectures in use, both in private and public cloud instances. You will also learn about the most common frameworks for testing, such as OWASP OGT version 4, and how to use them to guide your efforts. In the next section, you will be introduced to web pentesting with core tools and you will also see how to make web applications more secure through rigorous penetration tests using advanced features in open source tools. The book will then show you how to better hone your web pentesting skills in safe environments that can ensure low-risk experimentation with the powerful tools and features in Kali Linux that go beyond a typical script-kiddie approach. After establishing how to test these powerful tools safely, you will understand how to better identify vulnerabilities, position and deploy exploits, compromise authentication and authorization, and test the resilience and exposure applications possess.
By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the web service architecture to identify and evade various protection mechanisms that are used on the Web today. You will leave this book with a greater mastery of essential test techniques needed to verify the secure design, development, and operation of your customers' web applications.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Common Web Applications and Architectures
Guidelines for Preparation and Testing
Stalking Prey Through Target Recon
Scanning for Vulnerabilities with Arachni
Proxy Operations with OWASP ZAP and Burp Suite
Infiltrating Sessions via Cross-Site Scripting
Injection and Overflow Testing
Exploiting Trust Through Cryptography Testing
Stress Testing Authentication and Session Management
Launching Client-Side Attacks
Breaking the Application Logic
Educating the Customer and Finishing Up
Customer Reviews