This chapter covers the basics of business logic testing, including an explanation of some of the more common tests performed in this area. Web penetration testing involves key assessments of business logic to determine how well the design of an application performs integrity checks, especially within sequential application function steps, and we will be learning how to use Burp to perform such tests.
Burp Suite Cookbook
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Overview of this book
Burp Suite is a Java-based platform for testing the security of your web applications, and has been adopted widely by professional enterprise testers.
The Burp Suite Cookbook contains recipes to tackle challenges in determining and exploring vulnerabilities in web applications. You will learn how to uncover security flaws with various test cases for complex environments. After you have configured Burp for your environment, you will use Burp tools such as Spider, Scanner, Intruder, Repeater, and Decoder, among others, to resolve specific problems faced by pentesters. You will also explore working with various modes of Burp and then perform operations on the web. Toward the end, you will cover recipes that target specific test scenarios and resolve them using best practices.
By the end of the book, you will be up and running with deploying Burp for securing web applications.
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Burp Suite Cookbook
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started with Burp Suite
Getting to Know the Burp Suite of Tools
Configuring, Spidering, Scanning, and Reporting with Burp
Assessing Authentication Schemes
Assessing Authorization Checks
Assessing Session Management Mechanisms
Assessing Business Logic
Evaluating Input Validation Checks
Attacking the Client
Working with Burp Macros and Extensions
Implementing Advanced Topic Attacks
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