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Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook

By : Ryan Soper, Nestor N Torres, Ahmed Almoailu
Book Image

Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook

By: Ryan Soper, Nestor N Torres, Ahmed Almoailu

Overview of this book

Maintaining your cybersecurity posture in the ever-changing, fast-paced security landscape requires constant attention and advancements. This book will help you safeguard your organization using the free and open source OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) tool, which allows you to test for vulnerabilities and exploits with the same functionality as a licensed tool. Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook contains a vast array of practical recipes to help you set up, configure, and use ZAP to protect your vital systems from various adversaries. If you're interested in cybersecurity or working as a cybersecurity professional, this book will help you master ZAP. You’ll start with an overview of ZAP and understand how to set up a basic lab environment for hands-on activities over the course of the book. As you progress, you'll go through a myriad of step-by-step recipes detailing various types of exploits and vulnerabilities in web applications, along with advanced techniques such as Java deserialization. By the end of this ZAP book, you’ll be able to install and deploy ZAP, conduct basic to advanced web application penetration attacks, use the tool for API testing, deploy an integrated BOAST server, and build ZAP into a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Utilizing ZAP DAST testing with Jenkins

Jenkins is an open source CI/CD technology that aids in the automation of the software development process. Jenkins allows developers to seamlessly merge code changes and automatically create, test, and deploy applications, making the software development process more efficient and dependable. Jenkins is extensively used by teams of all sizes to automate their software delivery processes, and it is easily customizable to meet the demands of each project. In this context, the OWASP ZAP is a Dynamic Application Security (DAST) vulnerability detection tool for web applications. It can be linked to a Jenkins pipeline to automate security testing as part of the CI/CD process.

Getting ready

This recipe requires the installation of Jenkins and Docker on an Ubuntu 22.04 virtual machine. Ensure Juice-Shop is running locally to scan against it.

Important note

If you are running Jenkins on a local system, you must offer access rights/permissions...