2 Setting Up a GraphQL Security Lab

In this chapter, you’ll begin building your GraphQL dojo: a security testing lab environment equipped with GraphQL hacking tools, as well as an intentionally vulnerable server that you can use to safely test newly acquired offensive GraphQL skills.

Understanding how to set up a hacking lab with the right tools becomes more important than usual when you are testing an application whose underlying technologies haven’t been around for many years. Seasoned technologies have gone through many iterations of security reviews and research. With newer technologies, it may take some time for similar knowledge bases ...

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