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ZAPmas Feedback
Sometimes Christmas comes early, and in this case for me it was the publication of the Twelve Days ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 12 - Testing a new Content-Security-Policy
What is the CSP? The Content-Security-Policy (CSP) is a widely recommended control and is ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 11 - ZAP impressions from a Burp user
It probably seems a bit odd to do this on Day 11 and not at the end of the series, but I have one ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 10 - Manual Web App Testing Unproxied
Most of the time, proxying the browser doesn’t present any sort of trouble. You should be able to ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 9 - Automated Scanning and ATTACK mode
Automated scanning against an application is useful. It’s a faster and less labor-intensive way to ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 8 - Spidering
Spidering is an automated process that recursively finds and follows all the navigation from an ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 7 - API Testing with Postman and ZAP
If you’ve done any significant amount of API development, there’s a good chance you’ve used ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPMAS - Day 6 - Passive Flaw Detection and Using the HUD
One of the awesome things about a security-focused interception proxy like ZAP is its ability to ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 5 - Scope and Contexts
Normally I don’t like having my interception proxy hide out-of-scope traffic. Doing so creates a ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 3 - CYA (Cover Your Auth)
Access control is one of the crucial elements to application security. The vast majority of ...
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Twelve Days of ZAPmas - Day 2 - The Edge of Tomorrow
Day 2 - The Edge of Tomorrow - Replaying and Tampering with Requests Fuzzing and tampering are like ...
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