Courses
1. Introduction to Blockchain and Solana
2. Setting Up Your Development Environment
3. Solana Architecture and Key Concepts
4. Creating and Managing Wallets
5. Understanding Solana Programs
6. Building Your First Solana Program
7. Deploying Programs on the Solana Network
8. Interacting with Solana Programs
9. Using Solana CLI and SDKs
10. Developing Decentralized Applications (DApps)
11. Smart Contract Security Best Practices
12. Testing and Debugging Solana Programs
13. Optimizing Performance on Solana
14. Exploring Solana Ecosystem Tools
1. Introduction to Blockchain and Ethereum
2. Setting Up Your Development Environment
3. Ethereum Architecture and Key Concepts
4. Creating and Managing Wallets
5. Understanding Smart Contracts
6. Building Your First Smart Contract
7. Deploying Smart Contracts on the Ethereum Network
8. Interacting with Smart Contracts
9. Using Ethereum CLI and SDKs
10. Developing Decentralized Applications (DApps)
11. Smart Contract Security Best Practices
12. Testing and Debugging Smart Contracts
13. Optimizing Performance on Ethereum
14. Exploring Ethereum Ecosystem Tools
1. Introduction to Blockchain and Polygon
2. Setting Up Your Development Environment
3. Polygon Architecture and Key Concepts
4. Creating and Managing Wallets
5. Understanding Smart Contracts on Polygon
6. Building Your First Smart Contract on Polygon
7. Deploying Smart Contracts on the Polygon Network
8. Interacting with Smart Contracts on Polygon
9. Using Polygon CLI and SDKs
10. Developing Decentralized Applications (DApps) on Polygon
11. Smart Contract Security Best Practices for Polygon
12. Testing and Debugging Smart Contracts on Polygon
13. Optimizing Performance on Polygon
14. Exploring Polygon Ecosystem Tools
1. Introduction to Cybersecurity
2. Report Writing for Penetration Testers
3. Information Gathering
4. Vulnerability Scanning
5. Introduction to Web Applications
6. Common Web Application Attacks
7. SQL Injection Attacks
8. Client-Side Attacks
9. Locating Public Exploits
10. Fixing Exploits
11. Antivirus Evasion
12. Password Attacks
13. Windows Privilege Escalation
14. Linux Privilege Escalation
15. Advanced Tunneling
16. The Metasploit Framework
17. Active Directory: Introduction and Enumeration
18. Attacking Active Directory Authentication
19. Lateral Movement in Active Directory
Web Security Tools and Methodologies
OSWE · Chapter 3
Web Security Tools and Methodologies
Modern web security assessment relies on a small, well-understood toolkit rather than any single "magic" scanner: an intercepting proxy, a source-aware static analysis pass, and a disciplined methodology for moving from recon to exploitation to reporting.
Key concepts
- Burp Suite (or OWASP ZAP) is the daily driver for any web assessment — intercepting, repeating and fuzzing requests.
- Static analysis (manual code review, or tools like Semgrep) catches classes of bugs dynamic testing alone will miss, especially business-logic flaws.
- A written methodology (OWASP Web Security Testing Guide) keeps assessments consistent and reduces the chance of missing a whole vulnerability class.
- Every finding needs both a proof-of-concept AND a plain-language explanation of business impact — tooling output alone is not a deliverable.
Try it yourself
Pick one OWASP Web Security Testing Guide category (e.g. "Testing for Cross-Site Scripting") and read its testing methodology end-to-end, noting the specific test cases it recommends before you would call the check "done".