What is Burp Suite for?
Burp Suite is an integrated platform/graphical tool for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application's attack surface to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities.
What tools can be used as an alternative to Burp Suite:
Many people use ZAP by OWASP, Why?
- Because it is free and is continuous updated by the community.
- You get to achieve almost the same results as you do with Burp Suite. The only difference is that you don't have to pay money.
- The GUI is nice and easy to use.
- A lot of features and plugins.
Explore it as your purpose:
- Proxy Server
- An Intercepter
- First Hacking Tool
- Http/Https Request Manipulator
- Decoder
- Mobile Traffic Logger
- Web Scanner
- Website Crawler And Many More...
What do cyber security professionals think of burp suite?
A swiss army knife. I’m not even approaching the web/API security assessment until I have a Burp setup enabling me to inspect the proxied traffic in a lovely presented graphical interface :)But on a more serious note, whether it’s OWASP ZAP, Charles proxy, fiddler, MITM proxy, everything will do, including a simple telnet/OpenSSL client to connect to the web resources. But life’s meant to be made more convenient, not harder - so a vast majority of us love our customized setup of Burp with all the plugins, configurations, key shortcuts, and whatnot.
Highly recommended, great APIs, great community around the tool, and fantastic company (Portswigger) who really do care about the experience their product is providing to the end-user.
