Chapter 1. Getting Started with Burp

Burp Suite is a collection of tightly integrated tools that allow effective security testing of modern-day web applications. It provides a great combination of tools that allow automated and manual workflows to test, assess, and attack web applications of all shapes and sizes. Getting started with Burp is easy. With some application, we can become extremely comfortable and skilled at using the various powerful tools that are offered by Burp Suite.

Burp Suite is a piece of modern software written in the Java language. Java makes it cross-platform and extremely versatile for use both by novices and professionals. This chapter will get you started with Burp quickly while giving you enough information that will ...

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