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Web Security Testing Cookbook

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Many of us test web applications on either a daily or regular basis. We may be following a script of interactions (“click here, type XYZ, click Submit, check for OK message…”) or we might be writing frameworks that invoke batteries of automated tests against our web applications. Most of us are somewhere in between. Regardless of how we test, we need to get security testing into what we’re doing. These days, testing web appli- cations must include some consideration of how the application performs in the face of active misuse or abuse. This chapter sets the stage for our activities and how we are laying out tools and tech- niques for you to use. Before we talk about testing web applications for security, we want to define a few terms. What applications are we talking about when we say “web applications”? What do they have in common and why can we write a book like this? What do we mean when we say “security”? How different are security tests from our regular tests, anyway?

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: ., 2008

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1-314

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English

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978-0-596-51483-9

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First Edition

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Web Security Testing Cookbook

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