Introduction To Penetration Testing & reasons for doing Penetration

Pentesting

Introduction To Penetration Testing

In simple terms Penetration Testing means, testing your own system for any Vulnerabilities or Loop holes to prevent it from the real hackers.. The Penetration tester acts like an attacker to bypass the securites to get access to the targeted system or network and report the security breaches and vulnerabilities to the real owner of the organisation’s.

Pen Testing is that a tester use to gain unauthorised access to the organization’s network systems and compromise them. But pentester has limited in resources by time, skill, resources and access to equipment as per the agreement. 


Also Check our previous Article to know more -> Penetrate your website before other do.

Different types of Web Application Hacking Attack Techniques / Ethical Hacking & Vulnerability Finding Techniques

Hello Readers, Below is Very Informative List for Different types of Web Application Attack Techniques - Hope you all will enjoy it.

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Penetrate your website before other do / Penetration Tools

Now a day’s not only hackers are looking for vulnerabilities in publicly available  domains (websites) but also newbies are exploiting them because penetration  has become  cheep and easiest with help of Freely available tools on internet. Due to ease in exploitation process, pentesters are not aware of its importance, not even they care about its consequences.

Here are some recommended tools, which you can use to test Vulnerabilities of domains, Web apps & portals.

Note: Don’t try it on other’s assets, as it may lead to cyber law violation.

Top 6 Web Vulnerability Scanner Tools

Web site security is very important because the website contain relevant information about a company and now a days website defacement is very common even a script kiddies and a new born hackers can do this. The most common vulnerability like SQL-Injection and cross site scripting lead towards the defacement. 

So you want to secure your web application than find vulnerabilities on it before a hacker find it, try to use some relevant tools and find vulnerabilities and fix it. There are so many tools available for both Windows and Linux platform and commercial and open source tool. Below is the best web vulnerability scanner tool that we have discussed before.

   

OWASP Zed Attack Proxy- ZAP

OWASP or Open Web Application Security Project is a non profit organisation world wide that are focusing on improving the security of web application.The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It has an automatic scanning functionality and it has a set of tools that allow you to find vulnerability manually.

Download OWASP Zed Attack Proxy - ZAP 

Web Application Attack and Audit Framework (W3AF)

W3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project goal is to create a framework to find and exploit web application vulnerabilities that is easy to use and extend. w3af is working for Become the best Open Source Web Application Exploitation Framework. It is available on Backtrack 5 too.

For Further Information & Downloads for W3AF