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What is Burp Suite?

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What is Burp Suite?

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- [Instructor] From accessing remote cloud services to running modern on-premise applications, the interface of choice is now the web portal. With client access from a browser and HTML as the standard way of interacting with applications, the use of web portals has helped make computing much more user-friendly. The web portal may be presenting just a static set of web pages. It may be presenting HTML web pages with active content, such as JavaScript, ASP, or PHP. The web portal may be presented directly from an HTML-capable application. Increasingly, data is provided through what are known as REST API services, which enables machine-to-machine interaction using web protocols. What all this means is that when we're engaged to do a penetration test, we're likely to be wanting to do a significant part of it on web-based services. To do this effectively, we need to have testing tools which understand web protocols and…

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