Security Testing Cheat Sheet

1 DRAFT CHEAT SHEET - WORK IN PROGRESS
2 Introduction
3 Testing Tools
4 Security Test Plan
5 Authors and Primary Editors
6 Other Cheatsheets

DRAFT CHEAT SHEET - WORK IN PROGRESS

Introduction

This page intends to provide quick basic security tips for quality assurance specialists. The goal of the cheat sheet is to act as a starting point for a comprehensive QA Test Plan for security of web applications.

Testing Tools

Testing web applications is difficult without tools. The following tools are the common set for QA professionals to accomplish all of the test cases in the security test plan.

Zed Attack Proxy
WebScarab

Security Test Plan

Each major security surface in a web application has a known set of vulnerabilities that can be tested for using a set of test cases.

Authors and Primary Editors

Bill Sempf - bill.sempf [at] owasp.org User:Bill Sempf

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Security Testing Cheat Sheet

DRAFT CHEAT SHEET - WORK IN PROGRESS

Introduction

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Security Test Plan

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