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