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Pentesting Web Applications [Video]

By : Tajinder Kalsi
Book Image

Pentesting Web Applications [Video]

By: Tajinder Kalsi

Overview of this book

Penetration testing is not only about networks but also web applications. Begin your journey by familiarizing yourself with the well-known tools to perform vulnerability assessment. Take a deep dive into understanding Metasploit Framework and learn how to maintain access on the target machine, when successfully exploited. Documentation is always essential and so is creating an effective report for submission to the customer. You will learn what to include in reports. Finally, you will be all set to perform penetration testing in a real-time scenario, and will try to crack a challenge, summing up everything you have learnt so far and apply it in real-time.
Table of Contents (4 chapters)
Chapter 1
Web Application Penetration Testing
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Section 2
Understanding Few Web Vulnerability Scanners
Web Vulnerability Assessment involves finding the vulnerabilities that exist in the Web applications. Web Vulnerability Scanners like Acunetix, can make this easier for the pen tester. In this video we will walkthrough Acunetix and understand how to use it. - Install Web Vulnerability Scanner like Acunetix - Configure and run a Scan on target web application - Analyze the scan results to understand the vulnerabilities identified