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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)

Scanning a web app passively

Passive scanning is constantly running and recording findings in the background of the ZAP Proxy. It works by combing through traffic that passes into the ZAP Proxy. This is a passive background thread that does not affect the performance of an application because it scans traffic stored already on ZAP.

Getting ready

For this recipe, all you need to do is start and run ZAP.

How to do it…

When opening Tools | Options, scroll down on the left side until you see Passive Scanner. Here, you will have the configuration option checkboxes, asking you first whether only in-scope messages should be scanned and include traffic from the fuzzers. The last two options are for editing the maximum number of alerts per rule that can be raised and the maximum body size in bytes to scan on the application.

Figure 3.17 – The Passive Scanner options

Figure 3.17 – The Passive Scanner options

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