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Session Management Testing with Burp Suite

Vulnerabilities related to session management have a high impact since they can lead to unauthorized access to data. This course will teach you how to test session security using Burp Suite.

Ricardo Reimao - Pluralsight course - Session Management Testing with Burp Suite
by Ricardo Reimao

What you'll learn

Identifying session vulnerabilities is one of the main objectives of a web application penetration test. Burp suite is one of the best tools on the market for testing session management. It contains several tools to handle raw requests and test session tokens.

In this course, Session Management Testing with Burp Suite, you’ll learn to test session misconfigurations using Burp. First, you’ll explore how session management works. Next, you’ll discover how to exploit common session vulnerabilities, including session fixation and broken logout features. Finally, you’ll learn to execute a Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack using Burp. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Burp Suite needed to test the security of web application sessions.

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About the author

Ricardo Reimao - Pluralsight course - Session Management Testing with Burp Suite
Ricardo Reimao

Ricardo is a Cybersecurity Consultant based in Toronto (Canada). He has 10+ years of IT experience, 6 of them in the IT Security field. His main interests are: SIEM solutions (IBM QRadar), Enterprise Security Risk, Penetration Testing, Security processes/procedures and Network Security.

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