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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

Practical example

Our practical example is based on the Company Name XYZ Inc. The marketing team in XYZ wants to add a blog page to attract more clients and they want to call the project xBlog. You attended a few kick-off meetings and now, finally, they have sent you the architecture document, and inside it, you have the following diagram:

According to this diagram, the clients (customers) will be able to access the blog from anywhere and they can add comments (the authentication process for customers is out of scope because clients will be authenticated through the main page of the company's website). On the other hand, the employees of XYZ can add a blog or approve a client comment through the WordPress CMS. Simple, right? Your job as an application security expert is to submit an ATM document to the project team before going to the architecture review board; let&apos...