Security - OWASP Top Ten testing

The OWASP Top Ten is a powerful awareness document for web application security. The OWASP Top Ten represents a broad consensus about what the most critical web application security flaws are. Project members include a variety of security experts from around the world who have shared their expertise to produce this list.

It is urged for all companies to adopt this awareness document within their organization and start the process of ensuring that their web applications do not contain these flaws. Adopting the OWASP Top Ten is perhaps the most effective first step towards changing the software development culture within your organization into one that produces secure code.

At All n One we utalize the Linux based penetration testing operating system KALI. Kali OS comes loaded with lots of different testing tools. All n One use OWASP ZAP to allow us to find these OWASP issues and then mitigate against them. This process is conducted Monthly.

The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications.

ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually.

Some of ZAP's functionality:

Intercepting Proxy
Traditional and AJAX spiders
Automated scanner
Passive scanner
Forced browsing
Fuzzer
Dynamic SSL certificates
Smartcard and Client Digital Certificates support
Web sockets support
Support for a wide range of scripting languages
Plug-n-Hack support
Authentication and session support
Powerful REST based API
Automatic updating option
Integrated and growing marketplace of add-ons


Some of ZAP's features:

Open source
Cross platform
Easy to install (just requires java 1.7)
Completely free (no paid for 'Pro' version)
Ease of use a priority
Comprehensive help pages
Fully internationalized
Translated into a dozen languages
Community based, with involvement actively encouraged
Under active development by an international team of volunteers