Burp Suite Essentials

Preface

This book on Burp is meant for web security testers. You might be using browser plugins or automated scanners or even other interception proxy tools. In this book, you will see how Burp Suite is a versatile tool that allows almost any kind of web security testing based on your needs. This book will build on how Burp can be used with upstream proxies, SSL certificates, and more. You will learn how to search, extract, and do pattern matching for requests and responses and use that knowledge to test complex and simple web applications. You will learn to use different tools and components together to form a powerful chain of tools for web testing. As a professional tester, we need to be able to report our work, safeguard it, and sometimes ...