Zap Penetration Testing: A Simple Tutorial To Detect Vulnerabilities

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Penetration testing (otherwise known as pen testing, or the more general security testing) is the process of testing your applications for vulnerabilities, and answering a simple question: “What could a hacker do to harm my application, or organization, out in the real world?”

Recently I came across a tool, Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP). Its main goal is to allow easy penetration testing to find vulnerabilities in web applications. It is ideal for developers and functional testers as well as security experts. Let’s check out how ZAP penetration testing works.
Step1
Adding a site to the testing scope
By telling ZAP what the target site is, ZAP can limit the scope of the scan and only scan the target site for vulnerabilities.
1. Open the web application that you want to test.
2. In Zap you will find your website/application displayed under sites.
ZAP will spider that URL, then perform an active scan and display the results.
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