A Complete Guide to Burp Suite: Learn to Detect Application Vulnerabilities

© Sagar Rahalkar 2021

S. RahalkarA Complete Guide to Burp Suite https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6402-7_2

2. Setting Up the Environment

Sagar Rahalkar¹ 

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Pune, Maharashtra, India

 

In the last chapter, we discussed some basics of application security and the need for tools like Burp Suite. In this chapter we’ll get started with setting up our environment for Burp Suite.

Burp Suite Installation

Before we attempt to either install or run the Burp Suite, we need to ensure that Java is installed on the system. It is an essential prerequisite to run Burp Suite. On a Windows system, you can simply open up the command prompt and type command “java –version” to check if Java is installed, as shown in Figure 2-1.

Figure 2-1

Check if Java is installed

If you ...