Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing

Functional Feng Shui

In pen testing applications, so far we have been quite methodical in how we approach each technique used here. Automated tools such as our proxy scanners, brute-force applications, and the many enumeration and scanning tools have helped assist with that and could feasibly enable a newer pen tester to successfully identify many vulnerabilities without intimate knowledge of the environment. This is because many of those tests related to improper coding, technical flaws, or misconfigurations, and they were much more tangible in nature.

Business logic testing, however, is all about understanding the workflow the site is trying to articulate or execute. Now, we still may be employing tools, but only after they have been directed ...