Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing

Preface

Web applications are where customers and businesses meet. On the internet, a very large proportion of the traffic is now between servers and clients, and the power and trust placed in each application while exposing them to the outside world makes them a popular target for adversaries to steal, eavesdrop, or cripple businesses and institutions. As penetration testers, we need to think like the attacker to better understand, test, and make recommendations for the improvement of those web apps. There are many tools to fit any budget, but Kali Linux is a fantastic and industry-leading open source distribution that can facilitate many of these functions for free. Tools Kali provides, along with standard browsers and appropriate plugins, ...