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Top 5 Application Security Tools & Software for 2023

eSecurity Planet

WAF integration: Web application firewalls (WAF) are a crucial line of defense for web applications, inspecting traffic, enforcing security policies, and protecting against a wide range of web-based attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS).

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Xen and the Art of Vulnerability Maintenance

NopSec

One obvious, and unfortunate, motivation for a penetration test is because you have been hacked and want to discover more about the exploitable vulnerabilities and threats to your systems. To paraphrase Sun Tzu, if you know yourself and the enemy, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.