OWASP Zed Attack Proxy 1.4.1 Released
OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) An easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing as well as being a useful addition to an experienced pen testers toolbox.
Some of ZAP’s features:
- Intercepting Proxy
- Automated scanner
- Passive scanner
- Brute Force scanner
- Spider
- Fuzzer
- Port scanner
- Dynamic SSL certificates
- API
- Beanshell integration
Some of ZAP’s characteristics:
- Easy to install (just requires java 1.6)
- Ease of use a priority
- Comprehensive help pages
- Fully internationalized
- Under active development
- Open source
- Free (no paid for ‘Pro’ version)
- Cross platform
- Involvement actively encouraged
