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Network Vulnerability Assessment
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Network Vulnerability Assessment

by Sagar Rahalkar
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
254 pages
6h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Burp Suite

BurpSuite is an extremely flexible and powerful tool for performing web application security testing. It is available free for download and also comes in a commercial version. Burp Suite can be downloaded from https://portswigger.net/burp/communitydownload.

The following image shows the initial Burp Suite console:

BurpSuite has various features as follows:

  • Proxy: It acts as an interceptor proxy and allows editing all application requests.
  • Spider: It automatically crawls the application in scope and creates an application hierarchy for further testing.
  • Scanner: It runs pre-defined security tests on the target application and generates ...
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ISBN: 9781788627252