[OWASP Zed Attack Proxy 2.1.0] An easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications
The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is 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 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
- Authentication and session support
- Powerful REST based API
- Support for a wide range of scripting languages
- 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
It supports the following languages:
- English
- Arabic
- Albanian
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Chinese
- Danish
- Filipino
- French
- German
- Greek
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Persian
- Polish
- Russian
- Spanish
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