Web applications pose a particular risk to organizations as they are accessible to the internet, and therefore can be accessed by anyone. If you consider this carefully, untrusted external entities are being permitted access to applications and systems within the organization's security perimeter, making them an excellent jumping off point for further infiltration, once compromised.
We will now move to the next phase of our approach, using OWASP-ZAP, we will scan the target system for vulnerabilities that can potentially be exploited.
One of the key reasons we perform on an offline copy of a target system is to better craft your tool's configuration to minimize the noise generated by the scanning process. With the exceptional focus on security in the industry as a result of high-profile breaches, many corporations are implementing intrusion...