In today's rapidly evolving technological world, the security industry is changing at a phenomenal pace, while the number of cyber attacks involving organizations is also increasing rapidly. To protect themselves from these real-world attacks, many companies have introduced security audits and risk and vulnerability assessments in their process management, designed to help the company gauge the risks with respect to their business assets. To protect these assets, many companies have hired security professionals with the purpose of identifying risks, vulnerabilities, and threats in companies' applications and networks. For a security professional, building up their skills and familiarizing themselves with the latest attacks are crucial. Also, for their betterment and improved efficiency, many individuals use Metasploit as their first choice in the case of exploitation and enumeration.
As regards network exploitation and post-exploitation, we have a host of resources at our disposal, but in terms of web applications, not many opt for Metasploit. This book will help security consultants and professionals see the other side of Metasploit with regard to web applications. It will also enable readers to work more efficiently on their web application penetration testing projects with the help of Metasploit.
