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Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook

You're reading from   Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook Hacking tactics, techniques, and procedures for testing web applications and APIs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801817332
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nestor Torres Nestor Torres
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Ahmed Almoailu Ahmed Almoailu
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Ryan Soper Ryan Soper
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with OWASP Zed Attack Proxy 2. Chapter 2: Navigating the UI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Configuring, Crawling, Scanning, and Reporting 4. Chapter 4: Authentication and Authorization Testing 5. Chapter 5: Testing of Session Management 6. Chapter 6: Validating (Data) Inputs – Part 1 7. Chapter 7: Validating (Data) Inputs – Part 2 8. Chapter 8: Business Logic Testing 9. Chapter 9: Client-Side Testing 10. Chapter 10: Advanced Attack Techniques 11. Chapter 11: Advanced Adventures with ZAP 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

How to use the ZAP API via Docker

Using Docker to execute and administer the ZAP application is known as running ZAP via Docker.

If you want to run ZAP in a containerized environment or quickly install and operate ZAP on many machines, this can be helpful.

Getting ready

You must install Docker on your computer and get the ZAP Docker image from Docker Hub in order to access the ZAP API via Docker.

The image can then be run as a Docker container, and you can communicate with the container while it is running using the ZAP API.

How to do it…

The ZAP application will launch inside the container when you run the ZAP Docker image. ZAP will then handle any requests sent to the running container using the ZAP API. You can interact with ZAP using a variety of different methods provided by the ZAP API, such as spidering a web application to learn about its contents, looking for application vulnerabilities, or creating reports:

  1. In addition to running the API scans...
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