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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)

Navigating the UI

In this chapter, you are going to learn the basics of the ZAP graphical user interface (GUI). This will give you a better understanding of how to navigate the GUI and where to find the configuration settings for use later in the upcoming chapters. We have divided the GUI into four major sections for ease of explaining how to navigate and use the GUI. Each segment will describe a section of the default ZAP GUI configuration.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Persisting a session
  • Menu bar
  • Toolbar
  • The tree window
  • Workspace window
  • Information window
  • Footer
  • Encode/Decode/Hash dialog
  • Fuzzing with Fuzzer