Chapter 9. Assessment of Web Servers and Web Applications
In this chapter, you will learn the techniques of assessing the web servers and web applications that are a part of the vast majority of the environments we will encounter. We will discuss the following topics:
- Analyzing web applications with Burp Suite
- Identifying web application firewalls
- Penetrating web application firewalls
- Tools
This chapter will provide us with information on one of the most popular attack vectors and the attack vector that is accessible on virtually any environment. Virtually all organizations will require some form of online presence. Therefore, it is a good bet we will have a web server and probably some web applications that we can use to attempt to compromise a ...
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