Studying the Effectiveness of Various Tools in Detecting the Protecting Mechanisms Implemented in Web-Applications
Shweta Thakre, Sachin Bojewar · 2018 International Conference on Inventive Research in Computing Applications (ICIRCA) · 2018
Web application security is a big issue due to presence of common vulnerabilities in them. This paper illustrates a case study on conducting security assessment on a dummy application. A number of tools such as SQLmap, Acunetix, VEGA, IronWasp, WebCruiser, etc will be used and its comparative study along with Manual assessment on the application will be studied. It is important to utilize a variety of tools as well as conduct careful manual assessment in order to find the most number of vulnerabilities in a web application. Based on this study, hands-on labs can be developed for teaching web security, software security testing, tools and other topics.