Introduction

This chapter covers the basic penetration testing of authentication schemes. Authentication is the act of verifying whether a person or object claim is true. Web penetration testers must make key assessments to determine the strength of a target application's authentication scheme. Such tests include launching attacks, to determine the presence of account enumeration and guessable accounts, the presence of weak lock-out mechanisms, whether the application scheme can be bypassed, whether the application contains browser-caching weaknesses, and whether accounts can be provisioned without authentication via a REST API call. You will learn how to use Burp to perform such tests.