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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)

Testing for logout functionality

This recipe focuses on testing the logout mechanism of the website. The logout mechanism is important in applications to terminate active sessions. Some attacks, such as cross-site scripting and CSRF, depend on having an active session present for a user account. Therefore, having well-built and configured logout functionality to terminate active sessions after a predefined time frame or after the user logout can help prevent cross-site scripting and CSRF attacks.

There are three elements that session termination requires and that should be tested for:

  • The first one is a logout function. This usually appears as the logout button on most websites. The button should be present on all pages, and it should be noticeable so that the user cannot miss it when they decide to log out.
  • The second is the session timeout period. The session timeout period specifies the length of the inactivity period before a session is terminated.
  • The third...