Sparta comes preconfigured with a number of tools we can use to examine web services. In the following recipe, we'll look at its scanning capabilities.
Web application scanning with Sparta
Getting ready
Sparta comes pre-bundled with Kali Linux 2. To use Sparta to perform scans, you will need to have remote systems that are running network services. In the examples provided, a combination of Linux and Windows systems is used. For more information on setting up systems in a local lab environment, refer to the Installing Metasploitable2 and Installing Windows Server recipes in Chapter 1, Getting Started.
We will also be editing Sparta's configuration file; refer to the Using text editors (Vim and GNU nano) recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started.
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